JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators are unlikely to create a new funding formula for public schools this year, after senators blocked a House proposal Tuesday. Senate Education Committee Chairman Dennis DeBar said leaders of the two chambers should discuss school funding…
POPLARVILLE, Miss. — In celebration of Women's History Month, the Pearl River Community College STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Club for the Poplarville Campus hosted a Women in STEM Symposium on Thursday, March 28. Dr. Verba Moore, a retired colonel…
Today, the Mississippi Senate voted to confirm Dr. Lance Evans as the next State Superintendent of Education. In December 2023, the State Board of Education named Dr. Evans to the post after a national search. Senate confirmation during the 2024…
OXFORD, Miss. – The Military Friendly Advisory Council has named the University of Mississippi among the top 10 schools in the nation for military preparedness, an all-time high for Mississippi's flagship university. Military Friendly ranks colleges and universities across the…
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College has once again solidified its commitment to serving the military community by achieving the remarkable feat of being recognized as the No. 1 Military Friendly and Military Spouse Friendly School in the nation simultaneously. This…
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s Department of Mechanical Engineering is becoming a named academic school with a cornerstone endowment gift from alumnus Michael W. Hall and his wife Valarie. The Michael W. Hall School of Mechanical Engineering’s namesake originally hails from Pontotoc…
WXXV’s Grant Chighizola is heading back to the classroom, highlighting a teacher who’s been shaping minds in Jackson County for years now at Vancleave Upper Elementary. When Grant stopped…
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College proudly announces that Kiyoshi Takahashi, a student at the Jackson County Campus, has been named a 2024 Guistwhite Scholar by Phi Theta Kappa (PTK). Takahashi is among the eight exceptional PTK members selected nationwide to…
University of Southern Mississippi (USM) School of Ocean Science and Engineering (SOSE) students, faculty and staff showcased a variety of coastal topics during the biennial American Geophysical Union (AGU) Ocean Sciences Meeting held recently in New Orleans. The meeting attracted…
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s World Class Teaching Program is celebrating 19 teachers who have achieved the prestigious National Board Certification and four who have renewed the credential. Representing school districts across the state, teachers who earned or maintained the certification through…
Lighthouse Academy for Dyslexia held the Southeastern Dyslexia Summit for the third year. "You don't just slam these children in LD [learning disability class], and take away their recess and their gym time.…
On March 5, 2024, twenty-four seventh graders and twenty-four eighth graders from twelve area schools gathered to compete in the Mississippi Council of Teachers of Mathematics Middle School District Math Tournament at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s Jackson County Campus.…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A proposal to merge one of Mississippi’s smallest universities into one of its largest ones died Wednesday in the state Senate. But the future of the small school, Mississippi University for Women, could still be endangered by a bill…
JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted today to add three new early learning collaboratives to the current list of 37 to provide high-quality early childhood education pre-K programs to 4-year-old students. This ELC expansion is…
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi House voted Wednesday to set a new formula to calculate how much money the state will spend on public schools — a step toward abandoning a formula that has put generations…
In Stone County, the school district superintendent application is live and now accessible to every qualified candidate in the nation. The Mississippi School Board Association met with…
More than 120 elementary, middle, and high school students showcased their scientific research to judges in the Region I and IV Mississippi Science Fair on Thursday at USM Gulf Park Campus in Long Beach. The winners will advance to the…
More than 120 elementary, middle, and high school students eagerly showcased their scientific research to judges in the Region I and IV Mississippi Science Fair Feb. 29 at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Gulf Park Campus. The winners will…
BY MICHAEL GOLDBERG Updated 1:47 PM CST, February 28, 2024 JACKSON, Miss (AP) — A bill proposed in Mississippi would close three of the state’s eight public universities, but lawmakers in the House and Senate said Wednesday that it is unlikely…
Thirty students from 14 schools on the Coast have advanced to become National Merit Scholarship Program finalists. More than 16,000 semifinalists were named nationwide in September. To become a finalist, students had to submit a scholarship application that included their…
Almost 1,800 Mississippians will be forgiven their student loans as part of the SAVE Plan forgiveness program. The Biden-Harris Administration released a state-by-state breakdown this morning, showing how the $1.2 billion breakdown will be divided among the states. The breakdown…
The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) College of Nursing and Health Profession’s Accelerated BSN (ABSN) inaugural cohort achieved 100 percent pass rate on the first attempt of the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) exam. Makayala Beach, Kelcey Couevas, Robin Holman,…
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Updated 4:48 PM CST, February 6, 2024 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is violating its own constitution with a law that would put public money into infrastructure grants for private schools, attorneys for a public education advocacy group…
The future fate of Stone County Superintendent Inita Owens has now been decided. The Stone County School Board has chosen not to extend Superintendent Inita Owens contract. The decision was…