Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the Mississippi Department of Education investigates irregularities recently found in the spring 2023 Mississippi Academic ...

Mississippi will decriminalize materials that allow people to test illegal drugs to detect if they are spiked with fentanyl, a highly powerful synthetic opioid painkiller. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves ...

Mississippi K-12 public school districts violated a federal act by administering state testing to more than the allotted 1% of students designated for “alternative” testing because of severe cognitive ...

When two winter storms struck the city of Jackson last year, it wasn’t the snow. It wasn’t the ice. It was the water. Century-old pipes burst, leaving residents of Mississippi’s capital city without ...

The number of Mississippi students learning at or above grade level in math and English decreased across almost every age group during the first statewide assessments amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The ...