The U.S. Department of Education announced an early liquidation of COVID-19 relief funds. Now, the Mississippi Department of Education and the state's school districts are at risk of losing a ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday, March 20. But only Congress can fully close a federal agency, so what happens next is still ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, continuing his plan to eliminate it altogether.This decision will allocate funds to individual ...

JACKSON, Miss. - Eighty-five percent of Mississippi third graders passed their 2024-2025 reading assessments after the school year's final retest, the state's Department of Education announced Friday.

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Reading state test scores released from the Mississippi Department of Education show momentum continuing to build across the state. 85% of third graders passed the third-grade ...

E.J. was diagnosed with dyslexia while she was in the first grade. She repeated the academic year, but without ever receiving ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released its 2024-25 Chronic Absenteeism Report on Thursday. The report shows Mississippi’s chronic absenteeism rate rose to 27.6%, ...

In 2011, Mississippi law required public schools to teach either abstinence-only or abstinence-plus sex education. Despite a significant drop in teen pregnancies since 2011, Mississippi still has the ...

Mississippi ranks 48th overall in child well-being, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation. While Mississippi ranks last in health, it has risen to 16th in education. Child poverty has decreased, ...

In 2011, the course of Mississippi's sex education shifted. House Bill 999, which became law after passing through the 2011 legislative session, requires each public school district to choose either ...