Education News – Kristin Decarr
“The Mississippi Board of Education has released a new five-year plan for the coming year that includes a number of ambitious goals including seeing that all high school students in the state graduate. A previous version of the plan called for the state’s graduation rate to increase to 83%. Last year 75% of students in the state graduated within four years…Instead of asking that 60% of students are proficient or higher by 2016, the goal has been changed to see that all students in the state are proficient or higher on every state test…Other goals include offering high quality access to preschool programs to every child in the state, as well as stocking every school with effective teachers…”(more)