NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  April 22, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – Pearl River Central High School (PRCHS) lead teacher Chayna Adams received the surprise of a lifetime today when she was awarded an unrestricted $25,000 Milken Educator Award at a 10 a.m. assembly in the school gym. The Milken Educator Awards, created by the Milken...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: April 22, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted April 21 to add seven new early learning collaboratives (ELC) to the current list of 23 to provide high-quality early childhood education pre-K programs to 4-year-old students. The ELC expansion is made possible by $15.4 million...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: April 21, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – After a 50-year career in public education, State Superintendent of Education Carey Wright, Ed.D., will retire on June 30, 2022. The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) appointed Dr. Wright to be the state’s top pre-K-12 education official in 2013. Her tenure in Mississippi...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: April 21, 2022 Dr. Donald Cook JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted today to hire Donald Cook, Ed.D., as the executive director of the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science (MSMS). As MSMS executive director, Cook’s responsibilities will include overseeing all operations, functions and activities...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: April 21, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted today to temporarily adjust the statewide accountability system so A-F grades for districts and schools and federally required school improvement designations can be determined for the 2021-22 school year.   On March 17, 2022, the SBE invited...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: April 1, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) today announced the 2022 Mississippi Administrator of the Year (MAOY) is Kara Killough, principal of Northwest Rankin Elementary School in the Rankin County School District, and the 2022 Mississippi Teacher of the Year (MTOY) is Brittany Morgan of...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: April 1, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi’s graduating class of 2021 achieved a 39.1% qualifying score rate for Advanced Placement (AP) exams, an increase from the previous year’s achievement rate of 38.2%. AP courses are college-level courses offered by trained high school teachers. Students can earn three college credits for...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: March 29, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. –  The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announces that 48 Mississippi high schools received a prestigious 2021 College Success Award recognition from GreatSchools.org for excelling at preparing students to enroll and succeed in college as determined by available data in each state. GreatSchools.org is the...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: March 23, 2022 Tara Denevan, 2022 Mississippi Parent of the Year JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced today the 2022 Mississippi Parent of the Year is Tara Denevan, a mother of two students in the Oxford School District. Denevan was nominated by the school district and...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  March 22, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) Mississippi Teacher Residency (MTR) program has extended the program’s application deadline past March 15. The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted in December 2021 to award more than $9.8 million in grant funds to five universities to...Read More