NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: April 30, 2019 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education’s Office of Elementary Education and Reading will host its fourth annual Literacy Coaching Symposium on June 4, 2019, in association with the 2019 Making Connections Conference at the Gulf Coast Coliseum and Convention Center in Biloxi.  The symposium is...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: April 30, 2019 JACKSON, Miss. – The National Center for Teacher Residencies has received a $649,366 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to support the Mississippi Department of Education in the development of the nation’s first state-run teacher residency. The grant will also fund strategies to better recruit and retain...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: April 24, 2019 The Mississippi Department of Education has received numerous calls from superintendents reporting that some teaching positions were not included in their allocation for the teacher and teacher assistant pay raise. The MDE calculated the number of positions based on the code in the Mississippi Student Information System...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  April 22, 2019 JACKSON, Miss – The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) recognized Mississippi in its latest report on pre-K quality as one of only nine states whose publicly funded pre-K program meets the majority of NIEER’s quality standards for early childhood education. The latest ranking is published...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  April 11, 2019 JACKSON, Miss – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted today to place the Humphreys County and Yazoo City school districts in the state’s first Achievement School District, which will launch in the 2019-20 school year. A state law enacted in 2016 requires the SBE to...Read More

MEDIA ADVISORY For Immediate Release: April 4, 2019 WHO: Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) WHAT: The SBE will hold its April meeting at the Jackson Public School District Board Meeting Room WHEN: 11:30 a.m., April 11 WHERE: Jackson Public School District, Board Meeting Room, 662 S. President St., Jackson, MS 39201 Note: Meetings of the Mississippi State...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: March 29, 2019 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) and the Office of Teaching and Leading today announced that, Dr. Lee Pambianchi, principal of Northshore Elementary in the Rankin County School District, has been selected as the 2019 Mississippi Administrator of the Year (MAOY), and Hannah Gadd,...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  March 28, 2019 JACKSON, Miss – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) today approved plans for the Oxford School District to become Mississippi’s newest District of Innovation, bringing the total number of Districts of Innovation to eight. The Oxford School District innovation plan includes a modified district calendar, a...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  March 28, 2019 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) added today three new components to the Mississippi Succeeds Report Card, an interactive online tool designed to help parents and communities more easily evaluate schools across the state. The new components include discipline data from the Office of...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  March 28, 2019 JACKSON, Miss – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) has selected 11 semifinalists for the SBE student representative program, which will begin in the 2019-20 school year. Student representatives will be non-voting members but will provide input on policy decisions that affect Mississippi public schools. In...Read More