In an effort to assist school districts with the implementation of the third grade reading gate, the Mississippi Department of Education will conduct regional meetings for parents of kindergarten through third grade students over the next month. Parents will receive…
Ingalls Shipbuilding awards over $100,000 in STEM grants to 28 schools in Mississippi and Alabama. Teachers from schools in Harrison, Jackson, and Hancock counties accepted checks ranging from $700 to $5,000 earlier this morning. The money will benefit science, technology,…
A larger share of Mississippi high schoolers than ever before are graduating. The state department of education announced that the graduation rate rose to 82.3 percent last year. That’s still below the national average of 83.2 percent, but the share…
Attorney General Jim Hood announced today that the state has filed suit against Google Inc. The lawsuit is over how the internet giant maintains and uses data collected from Mississippi public school students who have Google’s G Suite for education…
After five months as interim superintendent for the Bay St. Louis-Waveland School District, Vikki Landry has been officially appointed to serve as the superintendent. In 2015, Landry began her work as an assistant superintendent for the school district before taking…
We're not yet a week into the 2017 legislative session, but a bill is already sitting on Governor Phil Bryant's desk for signature. House Bill 32 is on track to be the first law passed in the new session. The…
St. Martin East Elementary School needs your help building a new gymnasium. News 25’s Kendra Turley introduces us to the school’s “Let’s Make it Happen” fundraiser. P.E. is easily the best part of any elementary school kid’s day, but for…
Students at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College will be coming back to a safer school when they return from the holiday break. Safety and security measures on the Jefferson Davis campus in Gulfport are amping up for the new year.…
St. Martin East Elementary School needs your help building a new gymnasium. For some, P.E. is the best part of an elementary school day. It’s a time to run around and enjoy a mental break from learning, but for students…
Mississippi lawmakers are considering a measure that would let school boards appoint replacements for elected school superintendents who resign in the next three years. In 2016, the legislature enacted a law making all 55 elected superintendents appointed, beginning in 2020.…
Today many of the school’s around the Coast opened their doors to returning students. Some students may have mixed feelings about being back in school. Getting back into the swing of school isn’t easy for all kids returning from the…
A legislative watchdog agency suggests Mississippi should change how it funds its charter school board. The Joint Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review says lawmakers should consider funding the Charter School Authorizer Board through regular appropriations. The board is…
Students are putting science skills to the test at Ocean Springs High School. An entire semester’s worth of work in projects filled the classroom at the high school this afternoon. Every year a group of students research, perform experiments, and…
How would you prepare for another devastating hurricane? The stewardship program was held at the Gulf Coast Research Lab in Jackson County. Over 80 students from Pascagoula and Gautier schools presented their semester long project to a group of judges.…
Snapping a photo never looked more complex than it did at Ocean Springs High School today. This complex machine that performs one simple task was just one of the many Rube Goldberg machines on display today. Ocean Springs High School…
Next year, the U.S. Senate will take a look at ways to rework the higher education policy. Senator Roger Wicker wants to hear from our state colleges before he gets involved in the decision making. That’s why he made a…
Members of Edbuild toured Ocean Springs Upper Elementary School earlier this morning. The education consultants were hired to examine Mississippi’s School Funding Formula. Ed-build is working to give the legislature recommendations to re-structure the formula to best serve Mississippi students.…
The 2017 legislative session begins in one month. This session is one that is sure to be pivotal considering over $100 million in BP settlement funds is up for grabs in the state’s general fund. Coast lawmakers are ready to…
North Woolmarket Elementary and middle school has a reason to celebrate.. The sixth grade Math and sixth grade English language arts classes ranked first in the state for students scoring proficient and above. The principal at the “A” rated school…
The 2017 legislative session is just one month away and this morning lawmakers from the coast met with members of the local business community to discuss some of the major topics expected on the legislative agenda. The possible re-write of…
Some third graders at Bayou View Elementary School got in touch with their green thumbs over the past couple of months. Pine Hills Nursery out of Pass Christian hosted a growing competition for several schools this year called “The Third…
Mississippi Power partners with local schools to make sure that their students learn about the importance of conservation. Forty schools were awarded grants, receiving a portion of $15,000 set aside to assist teachers with lessons in environmental education. Among those…
Governor Phil Bryant has been named chair-elect of the education commission of the states. The national organization gathers, analyzes and disseminates information about current and emerging issues, trends and innovations in state education policies. Governor Bryant issued a statement saying…
Southern MISS has been named number one in the nation for affordability of its online offerings. The rankings issued by "affordable colleges online" include researchers and higher education experts who analyses data from every college and university in the country…