NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: September 16, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – Today, four schools in Mississippi were among the 297 schools across the nation named as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2022 by U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. The recognition is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  September 1, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) invites nominations and applications for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). The award is the highest honor the United States gives to teachers of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science. Two Mississippi...Read More

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