Education

Mississippi could be moving toward publicly funding pre-K education for the first time.

State auditor Stacey Pickering takes issue with the state's education spending formula.

Interview with Ole Miss Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs on election night Incident Review Committee's report

The Ole Miss Incident Review Committee has now released its report on what exactly happened 12 weeks ago during election night on campus.

Mississippi house republicans say their education reform goals extend beyond charter schools.

Mississippi Representatives get their first chance to debate a charter school bill.

Resistance to charter schools is growing in some Mississippi school districts, among them Oxford.

"We're talking about full tuition, room and board, their books, all of the technical equipment that they'll need. We're going to have study abroad that were going to provide for them to be able to travel to other places. And these students are students that are going to have to be eligible to be members of our respective honors colleges on our two campuses. So these are outstanding students to start with."

Schools around the country close in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But schools in the Deep South are also observing the birthday of Confederate General, Robert E. Lee.

A new report claims Mississippi schools are dispensing too heavy punishment for the crime.

lawmakers and state agency heads look for ways to make Mississippi schools more secure.

State leaders say Mississippi's underperforming education system is a major threat to future business development.

The first meeting of the house education committee begins with bipartisan questions.

Nearly three thousand Mississippi community college students lost their Pell Grants in Fall 2012. MPB's Daniel Cherry reports, a higher education researcher says that could put a college education out of reach for many students. 

Also topping the 2013 legislative agenda is education reform, and as MPB's Daniel Cherry reports, charter schools are expected to be the biggest education issue.