NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Feb. 17, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released today the 2020-21 school year graduation and dropout rates, which reflect the highest statewide graduation rate of 88.4% and the lowest statewide dropout rate of 8.5%. Rates are based on students who entered ninth grade for the...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Feb. 16, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) expanded its Licensure Call Center Feb. 1, with longer hours and additional customer service representatives to better assist prospective and current educators. The Licensure Call Center now has 15 representatives available from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Feb. 15, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – Applications to the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) Mississippi Teacher Residency (MTR) program are now available for aspiring educators seeking a graduate degree in elementary and special education. The priority deadline to submit applications is March 15. Any applications submitted after March 15 will...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Feb. 9, 2022     JACKSON, Miss. – Two Mississippi teachers earned national recognition this week as recipients of the 2020 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). The mathematics teachers are Millicent Gunter of Bayou View Elementary in the Gulfport School District and Laura Bivins of...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Jan. 21, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted Jan. 20, to add five new early learning collaboratives (ELC) to the current list of 18 to provide high-quality early childhood education pre-K programs to 4-year-old students. The ELC expansion is made possible by $6.3 million...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Jan. 20, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted today to allow school districts to use hybrid scheduling if needed to minimize the current spread of COVID-19. The hybrid scheduling option is available immediately and will extend through March 11, 2022. Hybrid scheduling enables districts...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: January 19, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) is announcing that the 3rd grade reading assessment, which helps determine promotion to the 4th grade, will be administered from April 4-22 across the state. The Literacy-Based Promotion Act (LBPA) enacted in 2013 was created to help ensure...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  January 11, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP) announces that Mississippi high school students Emily Adcock and Vaibhavi Mahajan will join Sen. Roger F. Wicker and Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in representing Mississippi during the 60th annual USSYP Washington Week, to be held March 6-9. Emily...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: January 10, 2022   JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) 2020-21 Superintendent’s Annual Report has been released, detailing how Mississippi students, teachers and school leaders continued to strive in classrooms during the Covid-19 pandemic by building upon historic academic gains of recent years. View the report online...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: January 5, 2022 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) will hold a public hearing about proposed revisions to the state’s academic standards for social studies at 9 a.m. Jan. 28 at the Mississippi Agricultural Museum Sparkman Auditorium in Jackson. The proposed changes are available through the Secretary...Read More