NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release:  December 29, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. – Today, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) announced the approval of Mississippi’s American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) plan and distributed remaining ARP ESSER funds to the state. Mississippi’s plan details how the state is using and plans to...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release:  December 17, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE), through its Mississippi Teacher Residency (MTR) program, is awarding $9,886,468 in grants to five universities in the state to cover tuition and expenses for up to 240 individuals seeking a graduate degree in elementary and secondary education. The...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release:  December 1, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) is seeking applications from high school sophomores to serve as the new high school junior student representative on the SBE Board for the 2022-23 school year. Application deadline is Jan. 28, 2022. Now in its fourth year,...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release:  November 17, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) Office of Child Nutrition (OCN) is seeking sponsors to operate the 2022 Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) throughout the state. The federally funded program provides nutritious meals to school-age children (0-18 years) during the summer months. Meals and...Read More

MEDIA ADVISORY For Immediate Release: November 10, 2021 WHO: Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) WHAT: The SBE will hold its regularly scheduled monthly meeting via livestream only to limit contact due to COVID-19. WHEN: 10 a.m. Friday, November 12, 2021 WHERE: View the SBE meeting livestream at msachieves.mdek12.org AGENDA: www.mdek12.org/MBE/Agenda2021  Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: November 12, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has released the fall 2021 assessment for kindergarten readiness. Among the 33,265 kindergarteners tested, 31.8% scored kindergarten-ready with a score of 530 or higher on the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment. Statewide, the average score was 487. Results of students...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: November 8, 2021   JACKSON, Miss. – Today, The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) kicks off a series of eight regional literacy meetings across the state for families of students in kindergarten through 3rd grade. All meetings are from 6 –7 p.m. and no registration is required. The first one...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: October 21, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) today released achievement gap data for students who took statewide assessments in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics in the 2020-21 school year. The achievement gap analysis report identifies any disparity in academic performance between subgroups of Mississippi’s...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: October 11, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced today the members of the State Superintendent’s Student Advisory Council. The council includes students in grades 11-12 or first year of college to serve as members for a term of two school years. More than 200 students...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: September 23, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released today statewide results from the 2020-21 Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP), which provide the first statewide measure of student performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time since MAAP tests were first administered in 2016, student...Read More