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NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: May 12, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona today announced the 58th class of U.S. Presidential

Rosemary Aultman, Chair of the State Board of Education, says she expects the entire process will take about six months. Rosemary Aultman, Chair of the Mississippi State Board of Education, told Y'all Politics that on May 26th, the Board will hold a meeting where they will review a proposed timelin

Assistant teachers in Mississippi will receive a $2,000 pay raise starting July 1, but one school district could make its assistants work a longer schedule.

VANCLEAVE, Miss. (AP) — Assistant teachers in Mississippi will receive a $2,000 pay raise starting July 1, but one school district could make its assistants work a longer schedule. A proposal awaiting consideration by the Jackson County School Board would extend assistant teachers' work from 180 days a year to 187, the Sun Herald reported.

JACKSON, Miss, (AP) — Mississippi's longest-serving state superintendent of education said Thursday that she will retire this summer. Carey Wright became the leader of Mississippi public schools in 2013, after a 41-year career as an educator in Maryland and Washington, D.C.

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and Department of Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut are rallying against a Biden administration push to add new conditions for charter school federal funding, arguing the move would be overly burdensome and make funding difficult to qualify for.  In a letter sent April 18, Sununu joined 17 other Republican governors in […]

Following a two-year Covid-related suspension of Mississippi’s third grade reading assessment test, the Mississippi Optometric Association (MOA) and the Mississippi Vision Foundation (MVF) will again provide eye exams at no-cost

Gov. Chris Sununu and Department of Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut are rallying against a Biden administration push to add new conditions for charter school federal funding, arguing the move would be overly burdensome and make funding difficult...

Wright's tenure in Mississippi has been longer and marked by more student gains than any state superintendent of education since the Education Reform Act of 1982 established the SBE. Last week, the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced that after a 50-year career in public education,

Mississippi will add seven new early learning collaboratives in the coming school year to help better prepare 4-year-old preschool students for kindergarten.