NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: May 13, 2020 JACKSON, Miss. – Dr. Carey Wright, state superintendent of education, testified before the Mississippi Senate Education Committee today, outlining the Mississippi Department of Education’s (MDE) plan to connect all Mississippi children to the internet so schools can deliver high-quality instruction digitally. “The COVID-19 public health crisis that...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  April 22, 2020 JACKSON, Miss – The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) recognized Mississippi in its latest report on pre-K quality as one of only four states whose publicly funded pre-K program meets all 10 of NIEER’s new quality standards for early childhood education. The latest ranking is...Read More

MEDIA ADVISORY For Immediate Release: April 15, 2020 WHO: Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) WHAT: The SBE will hold its regularly scheduled monthly meeting via livestream WHEN: 10 a.m., Thursday, April 16, 2020 WHERE: View the SBE meeting livestream at https://msachieves.mdek12.org AGENDA: www.mdek12.org/MBA/2020-board-agenda/April-16-board-agenda  Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: March 31, 2020 JACKSON, Miss. – I don’t think anyone, especially us high school seniors, saw this coming. I keep thinking back to mid-January, a few weeks after coming back to school from Christmas break, when I heard about the virus outbreak in China. It came up in small talk...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: March 26, 2020  JACKSON, Miss. –  The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) today suspended several statewide policies to manage the impact of extended school closures due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) public health crisis. The policy suspensions apply only to students and educator candidates in the 2019-20 school year and...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: March 23, 2020  JACKSON, Miss. –  The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has compiled a host of learning-at-home resources for students in pre-K through grade 12 to support student learning during the extended school closure. The resources are available online at www.mdek12.org/LearningAtHome. The learning-at-home resources do not replace what children...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: March 20, 2020 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) has selected 10 semifinalists to serve as the SBE junior student representative in the 2020-21 school year. The SBE student representative program includes one high school junior and one high school senior who serve as non-voting SBE...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: March 19, 2020 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted today to suspend all federal and state assessments for the 2019-20 school year and to submit a waiver request to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) for exemption of those federal requirements. As a result of...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: March 18, 2020 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) Office of Special Education has created this Q & A as a resource to parents of children with disabilities to help support their learning during school closures. Please visit the MDE’s Special Education webpage for more information and...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: March 17, 2020 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education’s Office of Child Nutrition (OCN) has secured two waivers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to assist school districts in establishing meal programs at this time. These waivers allow all schools to serve meals to students during an...Read More