Published Online: March 16, 2012
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Senators don’t want the state Board of Education to make good school districts merge with those not faring as well.
The chamber passed a bill 37-12 Thursday that allows the state Board of Ed…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Despite dozens of allegations of neglect and sexual abuse over the years, the U.S. State Department has scrapped a plan to require FBI-based fingerprint searches for people hosting foreign high school exchange students, accor…
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The city of Jackson’s public school system will get a chance April 26 to show why it shouldn’t lose state accreditation.
Mississippi’s Commission on School Accreditation set the hearing Mond…
Worries about graduationOklahoma high school seniors have to pass exit exams this year to earn their diplomas, and some rural educators are worried about students who can’t, according to an article in the Tulsa World based in Tulsa, Okla.
Neil Morton…
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Parents and educators are grappling all the time with how much young children should be exposed to using technology…
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DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Supreme Court sided Monday with opponents of a campus gun ban who claimed the prohibition is illegal because it was not approved by the Legislature.
Opponents of the gun ban said the Uni…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Senate is expected Wednesday to debate a bill to expand charter schools in the state, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves said Tuesday, hours after the bill was approved in committee.
Members of the Senate Education Committe…
Published Online: February 21, 2012
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Online charter schools would not be allowed under a bill that Mississippi senators are pushing forward.
A committee agreed Tuesday to an amendment banning such virtual schools, which have…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — School districts across Mississippi are continuing to weigh their options on sex education classes.
Mississippi schools have until June 30 to decide how to incorporate “abstinence-only” or “abstinence-plus” classes into the c…
Ben Austin, the executive director of Parent Revolution, which supported a controversial charter petition in Compton, Calif., hugs parent Patricia Quintero, last year.
—Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/AP-File
Concept intrigues many, but logistics, oppos…
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