JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) today provided an update to the Mississippi State Board of Education about the state’s investment in coaching support to schools and its impact on student achievement. For the 2025-26 school year, MDE has allocated approximately $17.5 million in state funds for coaches to build the capacity...Read More

JACKSON, Miss. – Today, the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) presented results of the 2025-26 Educator Shortage Survey and the 2024-25 Teacher Recruitment and Retention Survey to the State Board of Education.Read More

JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) is seeking applications from high school sophomores to serve as the new high school junior student representative on the SBE for the 2026-27 school year. Application deadline is Jan. 30, 2026.Read More

JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted today to approve new A-F performance level cuts for the Mississippi Statewide Accountability System. The new thresholds for grades will be used to assign grades to schools and districts for the 2025-26 school year. Grades for the current school year will set a new...Read More

JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has released ACT results of all public high school juniors who took the test during the spring 2025 statewide administration. Mississippi is one of 16 states that administers the ACT for free to high school juniors.Read More

JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education today placed the Okolona Separate School District into a District of Transformation due to serious financial impairments that threaten the district’s ability to provide students with an adequate and stable educational environment.Read More

JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) today announced 85% of third graders passed the third-grade reading assessment after the final retest for the 2024-25 school year. The pass rate is higher than the 2023-24 final pass rate of 84%.Read More

JACKSON, Miss. – Mannsdale Upper Elementary School third-grade teacher Kayla Saxton received the surprise of a lifetime in Madison this morning when she was presented with the prestigious Milken Educator Award and its accompanying unrestricted $25,000 cash prize.Read More

JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) is announcing today the establishment of the Mississippi Blue Ribbon School program, following the termination of the U.S. Department of Education’s former National Blue Ribbon Schools Program in August. This state-level program will continue the annual recognition of the state’s highest-performing schools.Read More

JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has designated three Institutions of Higher Learning as Mississippi Emerging Science of Reading Educator Preparation Programs and one institution as a Mississippi Science of Reading Educator Preparation Program for the 2025-26 school year.Read More