Right now, the state only provides enough funding for about 2,000 of Mississippi’s 40,000 eligible three and four-year-olds to attend public preschool. As News 25’s Katarina Luketich shows us, education leaders are trying to get more money for the Early…
Thanks to Hurricane Katrina, Hope Academy has been without a permanent home for 10 years. Tonight, that all changed when the doors to their brand new school were opened for the first time. Students burst with excitement as they walk…
For over ten years, Hope Academy has been without a permanent home. Nearly a year ago, teachers and students broke ground on a permanent home, thanks to a grant from MEMA and FEMA. Today, they welcome the public to take…
The Marines are always looking for a few good men and women. They’re hoping a visit from an interactive bus here on the Coast tomorrow will attract some possible candidates. Starting at 9 a.m., residents will have a chance to experience…
This week is National School Choice Week, highlighting education options parents have for their children. One of those options is public charter schools, something many state politicians are pushing for more of. News 25’s Katarina Luketich gives us a closer…
Robots, coding, and programming all seem like foreign concepts to many adults but a classroom full of fifth graders at Ocean Springs Upper Elementary makes it all look simple. News 25’s Laurene Callander caught up with these tech wizards on…
Fourth graders of the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast and Jackson County now have an opportunity to have a fun filled “estuary adventure to remember” this summer, thanks to a grant from the National Park Foundation. The…
Ingalls Shipbuilding awarded $100,000 in science-related grants to 25 schools and organizations on our Coast and in Alabama. News 25’s Jennifer Tubwell shows us what the grant means to students at Woolmarket Elementary School. These Woolmarket Elementary School students are…
USM’s Gulf Park campus commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Award by hosting several prize winners for a panel discussion. The panel featured former editor of the Sun Herald Stan Tiner, Gulfport native Natasha Tretheway and journalism professor and…
Climb CDC’s Family Enrichment Program and Goodwill of South Mississippi are teaming up to fight illiteracy on the Coast. The United State Department of Education found 29 percent of adults over the age of 16 read at an eighth grade…
As many of our Coast military families know, deployments are tough, especially when it comes to children. Help and encouragement is on the way, thanks to a traveling USO tour group who stopped in South Mississippi today. News 25’s Kristen…
Students over at Orange Grove Elementary were moving and grooving all while learning a good lesson about fitness.
In President Obama’s State of the Union speech he stressed that pre-kindergarten programs should be available to all American children.
Vancleave Public Library received over $2,000 in grant money for a brand new updated GED collection.
If you are graduating high school this year, Gulfport Premium Outlets wants to help you pay for college.
An evaluation of school performance finds that Mississippi’s academic achievement gains have outstripped gains nationwide from 2003 to 2015.
Today, Harrison County Head Start students finally headed back to school.
School may be out for the holidays but the conversation about education funding has not stopped.
Do you have a teen interested in law enforcement? The Biloxi Police Department has a program for them.
For the first time ever, the state of Mississippi administered the third grade reading gate test last year.
The Mississippi Reading Association is composed of educators who come together to fight illiteracy.
The holiday season has just begun but it’s also the end of the semester and finals week for some local college students.
The pages of many different books came alive today at St. Patrick High School for the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi’s ninth annual Reading Fair.
Before the first bell rings at Long Beach High, students are charged up and ready to go, thanks to a coffee shop inside the building operated by students