Health
As COVID-19 deaths increase, Bolivar County coroner requests more body storage
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Bolivar County’s coroner is dealing with an increase in COVID-19 related deaths and running out of locations to store the dead.
Education
Districts scramble to understand, comply with governor’s last-minute delayed schools order
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Twenty-one school districts were affected by the governor’s executive order, and there is some confusion about how to apply it to reopening plans.
Education
State Board of Education allows shortened school year for some districts
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School districts that had to change their start date or are affected by the governor’s recent executive order no longer have to meet the 180 day requirement.
Education
Reeves delays start of school only in hot spots, orders statewide mask mandate
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The governor delayed the opening of schools in a handful of counties and ordered a statewide mask mandate Tuesday.
Education
What safety measures are Mississippi colleges and universities taking to reopen?
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Colleges and universities have to take in a number of factors like class sizes, dorms, and mask requirements as they prepare to reopen next month.
Coronavirus in Mississippi
The trouble with contact tracing in Mississippi
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The mayor of Oxford, Miss. found more than 100 cases of COVID-19 that were not counted locally by the state health department. The discrepancy highlights a major problem state officials are facing when it comes to contact tracing.
Government
Bolivar County will remove its Confederate monument
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Bolivar County will remove the Confederate statue from outside the Cleveland courthouse, though details about where it will be moved or how much it will cost are sparse.
Justice
‘Glorified shrine of the Confederacy’: UM students, faculty fume over unofficial plans to renovate Confederate cemetery
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Plans to move the Confederate monument at the University of Mississippi were overshadowed this week by leaked plans to renovate the Confederate cemetery on campus.
Justice
University of Mississippi to relocate Confederate monument
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The Confederate monument at the University of Mississippi will be moved, the IHL decided Thursday.
Justice
Bolivar County considers removing Confederate monument
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Amid statewide discussion of Confederate iconography and its place in Mississippi, the Bolivar County Board of Supervisors is considering removing a Confederate monument from the Cleveland Courthouse.
Education
State unveils options for K-12 schools to reopen in the fall
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School districts must decide how to reopen in the fall, whether it be totally virtually, in-person, or some combination of the two.
Education
‘The most nutritious meal they’ll get’: How Mississippi districts are feeding kids in a pandemic
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The problem of food insecurity is not new. Advocates point to a system of economic policies that enables hunger to exist.
Justice
‘Fed the f— up’: Why young activists are organizing protests across Mississippi
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As people across the nation take to the streets to protest police brutality, young Mississippians are organizing and demanding change.
Colleges and universities will resume “traditional operations” in the fall
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Mississippi’s eight public colleges and universities will return to in-person classes in the fall.
Education
College financial aid applications in Mississippi trail most states as coronavirus pandemic persists
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The coronavirus pandemic has created additional barriers for students to complete financial aid forms.