English Learners and Immigrant Youth (ESEA Sec. 3102) The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) provides statewide leadership in promoting high quality education for English Learners (EL) and Immigrant youth.  Title […]

Mississippi’s Migrant Education Program (MEP) is a federally funded program (Title I-C) responsible for providing supplemental academic and supportive services to the children of families (or children themselves) who migrate […]

Legislation In March 2021, Governor Tate Reeves signed House Bill 633, the Mississippi Computer Science and Cyber Education Equality Act, requiring all public schools in Mississippi to offer computer science […]

As part of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021, (CRRSA Act) Public Law 116-260, Congress set aside $2.75 billion of the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund specifically […]

Are you OK? Ensuring the Social and Emotional Well-Being of Self and Others during the Ongoing Pandemic Presenter:  Curt R. Green (PowerPoint) (Presentation Audio/Video)   Mississippi’s SEL Standards Presenter:  Ginger […]

This page contains information for school-based speech language pathologists.* If you have questions regarding this information or need further assistance, you may contact Keisha Dixon at kdixon@mdek12.org. Integrating Teletherapy e-book […]

The following are the questions/ideas/needs program offices articulated during the focus group discussions. They are organized by the associated Dimension from the Research Framework and are clustered by the strength […]

The Legislature appropriates funding annually to resolve the disparity between counties that have 16th section lands and the Chickasaw Cession counties that have no 16th section lands.  This history of […]

Assessment is the mechanism used to measure educational achievement. Assessment is important because it affects how the students view themselves; the way parents, community, and governing bodies evaluate schools and […]

The 2016 Mississippi World Languages Framework describes what students should know and be able to do in world languages other than English. The framework provides an outline of what students […]