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Consolidating schools, traffic concerns weighing on Vancleave parents ahead of school bond vote Residents in the Jackson County School District will vote on the $67 million, 20-year bond on May 18, 2021. Consolidating schools, traffic concerns weighing on Vancleave parents ahead of school bond vote By Chancelor Winn | May 13, 2021 at 7:11 AM CDT - Updated May 13 at 7:12 AM VANCLEAVE, Miss. (WLOX) - Next week, people who live in the Jackson County School District will head to the polls to v...

Photo provided by Ferndale Public Schools Ferndale schools declines to offer full-time return option Advertisement FERNDALE — Many school districts in Michigan had to make a decision by March 22 whether or not to offer a full-time, in-person option for students. Earlier in March, the Michigan Legislature passed a bill — later signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — that offered federal dollars to school districts that provided 20 hours of in-person instruction each week. Ferndale Public Schools...

Young Writers Contest continues to inspire in 53rd year Updated Feb 03, 2021; Posted Feb 03, 2021 Facebook Share By Beth Thames | bethmthames@gmail.com Six years ago, when a full moon rose over the fields of Madison, Alabama, a fifth grade student watched it glow from her bedroom window. It was so beautiful, hanging there in the heavens. She took out her notebook, picked up her pen, and wrote down her thoughts. Those thoughts became a poem, an award-winning one. “Celestial Grace” won fir...

Huntington Ingalls Industries Awards More Than $99,000 in STEM Grants to Gulf Coast Schools Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. Newport News, Virginia, UNITED STATES PASCAGOULA, Miss., Jan. 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division has awarded $99,890 in grants to 26 schools and educational organizations in Mississippi and Alabama for science, technology, engineering and math initiatives. “The educators rec...