The Mississippi Legislature has passed a new K-12 education funding formula, sending the bill to the governor's desk and replacing a funding model that has been in place since the 1990s.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is on track to change the way it pays for public schools with a new plan that would give districts a boost in funding for students who can be more expensive to ...
House and Senate members often adjourn a legislative day in memory of a constituent or other well known person who recently died. On the day the Mississippi House took its final vote to adopt a ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi would ditch a complex school funding formula that legislators have largely ignored since it became law a generation ago and replace it with a new plan that some ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed legislation that will change the way the state pays for public schools, ditching a formula that brought political pressure on ...
Jackson Public Schools officials announced at a Wednesday press conference a grant of more than $9 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to buy energy efficient school buses.
Shuttered schools, shrinking student bodies, and pink slips for teachers: public schools across America might have to take drastic actions to cope with the financial fallout of declining enrollments, ...
JPS Transportation Executive Director Stephanie Harris-Martin told more than 60 attendees the EPA's award of $9.5 million ...