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Kelsey Davis is from Mobile, Ala., and currently lives in Cleveland, where she works as one of our Mississippi Delta-based reporters covering education and intersecting issues. Kelsey has a dual degree in journalism and Spanish from Auburn University and worked as an editorial intern at Texas Monthly and a courts reporter at the Montgomery Advertiser. She is a 2018 Educating Children in Mississippi Fellow at the Hechinger Report and is a co-founder of the Mississippi Delta Public Newsroom.
Rural schools, which serve 235,000 students in Mississippi, are finding creative ways to overcome equity and access hurdles that schools throughout the state are facing. “It’s going to take some private sector help … our churches, faith-based organizations …have to help with this as well”
Map of sites offering free breakfast and lunch to students 18 and under
‘I didn’t want the Benoit area to lose everything and with this option, they lost everything. … I know that once a school is closed in a community, that particular town goes down,’ West Bolivar Consolidated School District school board president
High winds damaged the roof of R.H. Bearden Elementary School forcing school administrators to reshuffle classroom space for elementary, high school and alternative school students. Educators make do as they prepare for state testing
As of Jan. 3, at least five prisoners at three Mississippi correctional facilities were confirmed dead in disturbances at jails and prisons. These deaths come amid a series of violent disturbances reported via social media and news outlets
The Mississippi Highway Patrol and sheriff’s offices in Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Bolivar and Washington counties sent more than 100 deputies to the prison on Thursday after a violent incident broke out Thursday morning and left one inmate dead
Mississippi is one of 21 states that does not publish teacher production data or hiring statistics. “In order to (address teacher shortage issues), it’s really necessary to have a solid high-quality dataset that’s regularly updated…,” one policy expert said.
Based on absentee voting, which is often an indicator of overall turnout, Tuesday could see the highest turnout for a statewide election since 2003
Passage of the bond would mean new schools for the students of Holmes County, but it also would factor into a plan to give a substantial raise to teachers. In 2018, about half the teachers in the district were uncertified.
Judge says in ruling that “There is no dispute rank points were improperly assigned or that these improper assignments negatively affected” the African American student, but the claims did not meet the criterion necessary under federal law.
Some of the bigger ticket items axed after residents in September narrowly voted down a measure to renovate crumbling schools.
FedEx Logistics (FXL) launched a first-of-its-kind program at Mississippi Valley State that aims to create a diverse pipeline of talent from the Delta.
The Democratic nominee for governor wants to implement statewide pre-K, fully fund public schools and address a critical teacher shortage
The bond issue would have gone toward making repairs to structural issues in the high school as well and building a new bathroom for the elementary school. It is eligible to go back on the ballot for the Nov. 5. general election.
State Board of Education approves a one-time only extension for the 734 teachers who did not meet the requirements to come back due to a licensing issue.