{"id":2521,"date":"2024-04-19T16:14:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T16:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2024-08-08T14:18:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:18:19","slug":"31-mississippi-schools-earn-the-military-star-school-designation-for-2024-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/2024\/04\/19\/31-mississippi-schools-earn-the-military-star-school-designation-for-2024-26\/","title":{"rendered":"31 Mississippi schools earn the Military Star School Designation for 2024-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Immediate Release: \u00a0April 19, 2024<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/04\/news20240419_2.png\" alt=\"news20240419\" data-align=\"center\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"2b808f5d-5298-460b-bc07-fa8fe9356a8a\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>31 Mississippi schools earn the Military Star School Designation for 2024-26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has named 31 schools as 2024-26 Military Star Schools. This designation recognizes schools that have made a significant commitment to supporting military families and children of service members.<\/p>\n<p>Military Star Schools must meet specific requirements that address the unique needs of military students and families. These include appointing a dedicated school liaison for military families, providing student-led transition services and peer support, ensuring professional development for staff to respond to the needs of military students and families, and publicly recognizing service members and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Tate Reeves established the Military Star School program in February 2022 through Executive Order 1561, making Mississippi one of 31 states at that time with a formal program to recognize schools that support military families. In 2023, 61 schools earned the designation for 2023-25.<\/p>\n<p>The Military Star School program is designed to help schools respond to the educational and social-emotional challenges military-connected children face during their transition to a new school and keep them on track to be college, workforce and life-ready. Military-connected refers to children of service members on active duty and in the National Guard and Reserves.<\/p>\n<p>The Military Star School designation remains in effect for two years. Schools can reapply to maintain the designation. New schools can apply to receive the designation in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>To see a list of Mississippi\u2019s Military Star Schools go to <a href=\"\/jrotc\/militarystarschool\/\"><u>mdek12.org\/MilitaryStarSchool<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find all MDE news releases at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdek12.org\/news\"><u>mdek12.org\/news<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Contact:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jean Cook, APR<br \/>\nChief of Communication<br \/>\n601-359-3515<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:jcook@mdek12.org\">jcook@mdek12.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shanderia Minor<br \/>\nPublic Information Officer<br \/>\n601-359-3515<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:sminor@mdek12.org\">sminor@mdek12.org<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: \u00a0April 19, 2024 &nbsp; 31 Mississippi schools earn the Military Star School Designation for 2024-26 JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has named 31 schools as 2024-26 Military Star Schools. This designation recognizes schools that have made a significant commitment to supporting military families and children of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}