NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  August 25, 2022   JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) will host nine regional literacy meetings beginning Sept. 8, across the state for families of students in kindergarten through third grade. All meetings are from 6 – 7 p.m. and no registration is required. Locations include Holly...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  August 19, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted Aug. 18, to add five new early learning collaboratives (ELC) to the current list of 30 to provide high-quality early childhood education pre-K programs to 4-year-old students. This ELC expansion is made possible by $5.9 million...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: 11 a.m., Aug. 18, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released today statewide results from the 2021-22 Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP), which show student achievement exceeding pre-pandemic levels in English Language Arts (ELA) and science and nearly tying in mathematics. Overall, the percentage of students...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: August 8, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has designated seven elementary schools as Mississippi Emerging Science of Reading Schools (SoR) for the 2022-2023 school year. This recognition is for schools that have trained teachers in the science of reading, exemplified a change of instructional practices, and...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: July 27, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced today the addition of 52 highly regarded education professionals from across the state to serve on the Mississippi Teacher Advisory Council (MTAC) for the 2022-23 school year. The MTAC, formed in 2016, now includes 309 educators representing...Read More

NEWS RELEASE   For Immediate Release: July 21, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) is responding to misinformation about the Mississippi State Board of Education’s policy update today regarding weapons on school campuses in the state’s public schools. MDE is offering this clarification in response to some media reports that misinterpreted the intent and effect...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: July 21, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released today the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment Update for the 2021-22 school year, which showed the majority of pre-K and kindergarten students made gains over the course of the school year but fell short of pre-pandemic achievement levels. Pre-K...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: June 27, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Board of Education (SBE) today selected the search firm, McPherson & Jacobson, LLC, to lead the search for the next state superintendent of education. The firm will conduct a national search beginning July 1 for applicants who meet SBE requirements. The SBE...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: June 23, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi Department of Education offices located at the Central High School (CHS) building, 359 N. West St., in downtown Jackson, will temporarily relocate to alternate work locations beginning Monday, June 27, due to building repairs. The Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration estimates interior...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  June 16, 2022 Charlie Frugé JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) has selected Charlie Frugé  of Oxford to serve as the high school junior student representative to the SBE for the 2022-23 school year.  Student representatives are non-voting SBE members who provide input on policy decisions...Read More