CLARION LEDGER: High five: Student, teacher craft boy’s prosthetic hand
Braden McCay was surprised Wednesday with a prosthetic hand created from a 3-D printer.
Monthly Archives: September 2015
HATTIESBURG AMERICAN: Miss. considering policy on restraint in schools
DAILY JOURNAL: Initiative aims to give dropouts second chance
By Riley Manning Daily Journal TUPELO – It’s a new day for Dickie Scruggs. The former – and infamous – trial lawyer is now championing education for the state’s half-a-million dropouts, a passion awoken while tutoring inmates during his six-year prison sentence. His new initiative, Second Chance Mississippi, seeks to fund and enable the community […]
Read More...DAILY JOURNAL: Musgrove gets rehearing, seeks to convince judge to order state to fully fund schools
By Bobby Harrison Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON – Former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove will get another opportunity to convince a Hinds County chancery judge to order the state to fully fund Mississippi’s local school districts. Hinds County Chancellor William Singletary has scheduled a hearing for 9:30 a.m. Oct. 13 to hear arguments on Musgrove’s motion […]
Read More...DAILY JOURNAL: Our Opinion: ‘Imagine the Possibilities’ awaits 3,000 eighth graders
Few people, even experts in jobs development, would or could have predicted how fast and in which directions career paths have changed since the beginning of the century a mere 15 years ago. Next week – Oct. 6-7 at BancorpSouth Arena in Tupelo – nearly 3,000 eighth graders from seven counties will be presented options […]
Read More...JACKSON FREE PRESS: Stinker Quote of the Week: ‘Education’
“Had we not had to increase funding for the Division of Medicaid over those four years, we could have funded other agencies or returned money back to the taxpayers significantly. For some of us, we would much rather invest in say, public education, than in the division of Medicaid.” —Republican Lt. Gov. and Chairman of […]
Read More...JACKSON FREE PRESS: Upping the Ante: GOP Threatens Education, Medicaid in Budget Hearings
Top legislative Republican leaders are threatening to cut parts of the Mississippi Department of Education’s budget should voters pass Initiative 42 in November requiring legislators to fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Education Program public-school funding formula. Republican lawmakers suggest that parts of the Mississippi Department of Education budget outside of MAEP are susceptible to their […]
Read More...Gussie Farris: Why 42 Matters to Coahoma County
Today we have a piece written by Gussie Farris of Coahoma County describing the importance of having the assurance of stable funding.
Read More...Anonymous: Science Resources Just a Dream in Mississippi
Today, we have a piece written by an anonymous middle-level science teacher in Mississippi that tells a haunting tale about how Mississippi students lack even the most basic science resources.
Read More...CLARION LEDGER: State to strengthen career pathways in schools
The Mississippi Department of Education announced Monday it will design more challenging career pathways in high schools, following the recommendations made by a report by the Council of Chief State School Officers.
