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
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: March 21, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) has selected 12 high school sophomores/rising juniors as semifinalists for the 2022-23 SBE junior representative position. The SBE student representative program includes one high school junior and one high school senior who serve as non-voting SBE members...Read More
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: March 21, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) has approved revisions to the Mississippi Perkins V State Plan to include work-based learning as an additional measure of school districts’ Career and Technical Education (CTE) program quality for the 2022-23 school year. The U.S Department of...Read More
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: March 18, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) has approved plans for Mannsdale Upper Elementary in the Madison County School District to be Mississippi’s newest School of Innovation and for Pascagoula-Gautier School District and Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District to be Mississippi’s newest Districts of...Read More
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: March 17, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted today to invite public comment on a temporary adjustment to 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. Mississippi’s...Read More
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: March 11, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – A new health and school safety platform will be available at no cost to 135 Mississippi school districts that recently opted to receive the service to create a safer and better learning environment for students, teachers and staff. In February, the Mississippi Department of...Read More
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: March 10, 2022 2022 Mississippi Administrator of the Year Finalists Dr. Meghan Cates Dr. Terence James Kara Killough Dr. Kiana Pendleton 2022 Mississippi Teacher of the Year Finalists Rachel...Read More
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: March 10, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – New high-dosage tutoring services in math and English Language Arts will be available to students in grades 3-12, educators and families at 121 school districts, which includes four charter schools, that recently opted in to receive the services at no cost. In February, the...Read More
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: February 24, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) is investing up to $49 million of its American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) III funds in four new services to support student safety and learning statewide. All school districts have the option to...Read More
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