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The 2019 data release from the National Assessment of Educational Progress didn’t offer news of much progress. The test, administered in schools biannually since 1969, had shown only lackluster academic growth in most states for over a decade. The latest scores suggested more of the same, with meaningful declines in fourth- and eighth-grade English. Peggy […]
The Mississippi State Board of Education voted to begin the process to return the Tunica County School District to local control
The SBE has governed the TCSD since 2015, when it determined an extreme emergency existed in the district & asked the governor to declare a state of emergency. The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted today to begin the process to return the Tunica County School District (TCSD) to l
Charlie Baker, governor of Massachusetts, lauded "one of the most iconic ways that the Commonwealth honors the Fourth of July" as the Boston Symphony Orchestra announced the return of the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular for the first time since 2019 after being canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
JACKSON • A preliminary snapshot of 3rd graders' literacy proficiency in Mississippi shows a passing rate nearly the same as before the COVID-19 pandemic, the state education superintendent said Thursday.