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Families in Mississippi spend an average of nearly $2,000 for just five weeks of enrollment in a summer learning program. That cost amounts to 16 percent of the median summer income for a two-parent household and more than double what is considered affordable by the federal government, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress. Read The Hechinger Report’s full analysis here.
Forty-four dancers representing 11 countries move forward to Round II in the USA International Ballet Competition (IBC) this weekend in Jackson. About 30 dancers will move on to the finalist round June 19-21.
The USA International Ballet Competition (IBC) is a launchpad for tomorrow’s dance stars, but history has a seat there, too.
Revenue collections for May were $45.3 million or 10.3 percent above the estimate
Third graders score at record high on reading test, but changes to the law suggest less students will pass on first try next year
The Implications of the potential trade war could be serious for Mississippi Steel Dynamic facility.
Although the state still has work to do, Mississippi’s educational system has made progress and is now close to or better than the national average in some aspects, according to a newly released federal report, called The Condition of Education. Read the full Hechinger Report here.
State investing $3 million in site development and providing $1 million for work force training.
“They only have to be successful once, I have to be successful 3,000 times per month,” Secretary of State Debert Hosemann said
As summer break begins, so does access to a warm hot meal for many students
I am with 40 other people in the civil defense room of the Harrison County Courthouse. By noon, we will be official poll workers
“This court cannot determine that there exists a substantial likelihood that the petitioners will prevail on the merits in this matter,” Hinds County Chancery Judge William Singletary wrote of Smith and Jasper counties’ lawsuit.
Details of agreement have not yet been disclosed, but alderman says case should be dismissed
The four and eight-year-old boys who sat with us, three years ago, are now seven and 11 years old. I wonder what else they’ve learned
Curtis Flowers’ story is the subject of a new podcast that’s been downloaded more than two million times