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JPS Board, Supe Under Fire Over Scores
When Cedrick Gray took the reins as superintendent of Jackson Public Schools in 2012, he had three preliminary goals attached to his three-year, $200,000 contract.
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MAEP Co-author Calls Tinkering with Public-School Formula 'Terrifying'
"Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic." That's the way Sen. Hob Bryan, D-Amory, described the joint meeting between the House and Senate Education Committees yesterday.
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JPS Students Confront Police Brutality With Art
When Forest Hill High School teacher Paige Watson taught 9th-grade English last year, her students read law professor Michelle Alexander's book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age …
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Mayor Proclaims Season to Help Students Pay for College
This morning at Murrah High School, Mayor Tony Yarber proclaimed October through May "FAFSA Completion Season" for the City of Jackson in an effort to increase those numbers across the …
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JPS Board President Talks Transparency, JPS Future
Though Jackson Public Schools is just a month shy of the Christmas holidays, Superintendent Dr. Cedrick Gray's resignation is effective Nov. 14.
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Mississippi Expands Pre-K Education
Just two weeks after Halloween, hundreds of four-year-olds in high-need areas around the state will receive a new treat: pre-kindergarten.
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Amid Bitterness, State Leaders Invite Public to Comment on Education Funding
State leaders are inviting the public to attend a meeting on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 4 p.m. in Room 113 in the State Capitol to comment on a potential new …
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Black, Hispanic Kids React to Trump Win
The electorate of the United States, and the voters who elected Donald Trump, do not resemble the demographics of the country's public schools.
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JPS Hosts Career Expo for Students, Community
The Jackson Convention Center was a hive of activity on Nov. 16, with swarms of Jackson Public Schools ninth graders touring multiple kiosks for jobs and educational opportunities in a …
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Shrouded in Secrecy, EdBuild CEO Gets Feedback from the Public on MAEP
For the first time, Mississippians got an official forum Thursday to sound off to EdBuild, the New Jersey education consulting company the state contracted under opaque circumstances to vet the …
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Protesters March On Wendy's for Workers' Rights
Wendy's on High Street got traffic from more than just the lunch crowd this week.
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Fighting Homelessness, Helping Parents
Bilal Qizilbash spends most of his hours working for other people. Some of the 43,000 miles on his car come from traveling across Mississippi lecturing on his cancer research.
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Third-grade Reading Campaign Expanding with Low-income Outreach
For Mississippi's third graders, the stakes for good performance on the reading test that can knock them out of timely promotion to fourth grade are now higher than ever.
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JPS Students Avoid Conflict with Peer Mediation
Early in the morning of Oct. 21 at Whitten Preparatory Middle School, students yawned and fidgeted in their stiff, wooden seats, clutching their hoodies and jackets. It was National Day …
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Minding the Equity Gap: How Majority-Black Clinton District Earns Its ‘A’ Rating
The October 2016 release of Mississippi's accountability ratings for each public-school district reveals wide racial disparities.
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‘Not a Dungeon’: The Evolving Approach to Juvenile Detention
Across the pod, from inside the darkness of a cell, two shining circles stared out: the still and steady eyes of a black boy, locked up before he is even …
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