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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. Prior to joining Mississippi Today August 2017, she won awards for her reporting on public housing and the life of a parolee re-entering society.
Some of the 19 bills introduced didn’t pass because the money wasn’t there to implement them, lawmaker says and advocates say pay raise that was passed not enough to recruit in critical teacher shortage areas like the Delta.
Ole Miss basketball players, playing against Georgia during the protest, knelt during the National Anthem to call attention to “hate groups coming to our school.”
The project developers say the company is on solid financial footing and the hotel will open this fall
Legislators, university and college presidents and other stakeholders have spent the past year reviewing state aid and possible solutions including a complete overhaul of the system
‘Unfortunately there’s been no overall strategy for the creation of state aid programs,’ director says
Chronic absenteeism includes all reasons a student would miss school – excused absences, unexcused absences or suspensions.
Greenville Public Early College High School offers students a high school degree and up to two years’ worth of college credit.
Education secretary praised the school’s willingness to try new approaches, educators say more programs needed
Officials deny lawsuit’s claim that they disregard the policies that are in place
A Mississippi Today analysis shows students in the Delta score about 16 percent lower than the statewide average.
In the latest development in the dispute between the community and the school district, court filed its order Aug. 14; the first day of school was scheduled for Aug. 16
The Mississippi Department of Education maintains that reconfiguring the district is a local issue, not a state one.
John F. Kennedy High School in Mound Bayou is temporarily scheduled to remain open for the school year, pending a judge’s final order.
The Delta town settled by former slaves is a poignant paradox: one that laments that the town isn’t what it was, but knows that it’s still worth fighting for.
Half of the university presidents, a third of the IHL, and the Commissioner of Higher Education have all transitioned out of their roles during the past year.