STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University’s College of Education is celebrating today [Jan. 30] its designation as a ...

THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE BILL. THEY ALSO LEFT LETTERS AT THE OFFICE OF SENATOR ROGER WICKER. THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS MAKING STRIDES TO HELP CUT BACK ON STUDENTS MISSING TIME IN ...

Half-dozen school districts now being led by the state ...

JACKSON, Miss. - Eighty-five percent of Mississippi third graders passed their 2024-2025 reading assessments after the school year's final retest, the state's Department of Education announced Friday.

Mississippi isn’t ensuring special education students receive all the services they’re entitled to federally, according to the U.S. Department of Education. A recent report shows Mississippi failing ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Reading state test scores released from the Mississippi Department of Education show momentum continuing to build across the state. 85% of third graders passed the third-grade ...

In 2011, Mississippi law required public schools to teach either abstinence-only or abstinence-plus sex education. Despite a significant drop in teen pregnancies since 2011, Mississippi still has the ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University-Meridian’s Division of Education is receiving a $1.2 million grant from the Mississippi Department of Education to help strengthen and expand the state’s ...

For these and other reasons, Mississippi and its people must apply hard work toward vast improvement across the board, and education is no exception. More than a decade after the abysmal NAEP ranking, ...

The number of homeless students in Mississippi public schools increased to 7,694 in the 2023-2024 school year. Homelessness for students is federally defined to include those living in hotels, motels, ...

In 2011, the course of Mississippi's sex education shifted. House Bill 999, which became law after passing through the 2011 legislative session, requires each public school district to choose either ...