JACKSON, Miss. – Today, the Mississippi State Board of Education awarded $4,725,000 in grants to five school districts to implement new State Invested Pre-K (SIP) programs. The purpose of these grants is to provide funding to support high-quality pre-K programs for 4-year-old children in districts that are not part of the Mississippi Department of Education’s...Read More

JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released today the results from the 2023-24 Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP), which show student achievement reaching an all-time high in mathematics, English Language Arts (ELA) and science. Overall, for 2023-24, the percentage of students scoring proficient or advanced reached a record high of 47.8% in...Read More