NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: June 10, 2020 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced today the 2020 Mississippi Parent of the Year is Lisa McCusker, a mother of two children in the Pascagoula-Gautier School District. The school district nominated McCusker for her countless hours of working with school personnel on a...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: June 9, 2020 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has partnered with a workgroup of nine superintendents from a diverse range of school districts to outline the key issues districts need to address to reopen schools. The issues are outlined in the document, Considerations for Reopening Mississippi...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: June 3, 2020 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has revamped its Strong Readers website, strongreadersms.com, to help families assist their children with building their reading skills. The site is organized by grade level, from kindergarten through grade 5. It includes strategies for developing strong reader habits...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: May 21, 2020 JACKSON, Miss. – Two Mississippi students have been named among the 56th class of U.S. Presidential Scholars, which recognizes 161 high school seniors for their accomplishments in academics, the arts, and career and technical education fields. Mississippi’s 2020 U.S. Presidential Scholars are Vayd Sai Ramkumar of Starkville,...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: May 21, 2020 JACKSON, Miss. – Teams from Ridgeland High School in the Madison County School District and North Panola Career and Technical Center in the North Panola School District qualified for a national Girls Go CyberStart competition this week. Girls Go CyberStart is a skills-based competition designed to encourage...Read More

MEDIA ADVISORY For Immediate Release: May 20, 2020 WHO: Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) WHAT: The SBE will hold its regularly scheduled monthly meeting via livestream WHEN: 10 a.m., Thursday, May 21, 2020 WHERE: View the SBE meeting livestream at https://msachieves.mdek12.org AGENDA: https://www.mdek12.org/MBA/2020-board-agenda/May-21-board-agenda  Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: May 19, 2020 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) is seeking public input to help the state prioritize the use of funds from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The CARES Act provides one-time relief funds to respond to the impact of school...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: May 15, 2020 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education is pleased to partner with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and XQ Institute in support of Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020, a one-hour, commercial-free primetime graduation special to be broadcast Saturday....Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: May 13, 2020 JACKSON, Miss. – Dr. Carey Wright, state superintendent of education, testified before the Mississippi Senate Education Committee today, outlining the Mississippi Department of Education’s (MDE) plan to connect all Mississippi children to the internet so schools can deliver high-quality instruction digitally. “The COVID-19 public health crisis that...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  April 22, 2020 JACKSON, Miss – The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) recognized Mississippi in its latest report on pre-K quality as one of only four states whose publicly funded pre-K program meets all 10 of NIEER’s new quality standards for early childhood education. The latest ranking is...Read More