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Universities to Cut Energy Costs

Eight public Mississippi universities will be cutting energy costs with a grant from the Department of Energy.

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Techy Tools and Apps for Students

Headed to college—or back to college —and want to take some tech with you?

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MSU Sets Conference for Non-White Men

Mississippi State University will hold a conference Aug. 31 on scholastic needs of non-white male students at the university and beyond.

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Miss. State Expects Record Fall Enrollment

Mississippi State University President Mark Keenum says the university is undergoing massive infrastructure upgrades and expects record fall enrollment.

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Tougaloo College Acquires TV Station

Tougaloo College announced yesterday that it had agreed to acquire television station WUFX-TV, Channel 35, in Jackson.

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Ex-Greenville Superintendent Pleads Guilty

Former Greenville Schools Superintendent Harvey Franklin Sr. has pleaded guilty to overpaying the owner of a Conyers, Ga., reading company and getting more than $47,000 back in bribes and kickbacks.

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Reeves Attacks Graduation Rate Omission

Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves says the Mississippi Board of Education made a mistake when it decided to omit high school graduation rates from school ratings this year.

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Why Are Our Kids Last?

Jackson-area child advocacy organizations say Mississippi's kids don't have to be in last place.

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Most Miss. Districts Choose Abstinence-Only

More than half of Mississippi's school districts have chosen an abstinence-only approach to sex education

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Bryant Calls for Teacher Merit Pay

Gov. Phil Bryant wants to end Mississippi's statewide system of seniority-based teacher raises.

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Money Helps Miss. Colleges Cut Energy Usage

Three Mississippi universities will share in a $725,000 Department of Energy grant to develop programs to reduce energy consumption 20 percent by 2020.

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College Promises: Too Good To Be True

Shirley Washington and Tiffeny Anderson had been kicking around the idea of going back to school when they came across advertisements for Virginia College. Actually, Washington stresses, the college ran …

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Mississippi Kids Still 50th

Mississippi is breaking even when it comes to how child children are faring. In the Annie E. Casey Foundation's annual Kids Count survey, Mississippi remained the worst state in the …

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Helping Young Explorers

United Way received a grant from IBM, a multinational technology corporation, for three Young Explorer learning centers last week.

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Miss. Gets No Child Left Behind Waiver

Mississippi is the latest state to receive a waiver from portions of the federal No Child Child Left Behind Act.