March 2012 Archive

Students in failing school districts may be packing up and moving next door. Both the Mississippi House and Senate passed bills yesterday that would allow individual students or entire student bodies to move to neighboring districts if theirs is failing. 

All the talk about stepping up immigration reform in Mississippi could soon become a reality.

The Sierra Club and the Gulf Restoration Network are taking the Mississippi Development Authority to court to keep offshore drilling regulations from going into effect.

The move would make it easier to hire and fire state employees.

A recent study found a dead zone, where oxygen is too low to support life, in the Gulf stretching along Mississippi’s barrier islands.

Mississippi voters are one step closer to showing photo identification when they head to the polls.

The state house and senate spilt on a vote over workman's compensation laws.

Mississippi's primary election wasn't all about the GOP nomination for President. The state's four U.S. Congressmen and a U.S. Senator easily won their party's primary last night. MPB's Daniel Cherry reports.

Rick Santorum pulls out a narrow win in Mississippi.

ondom demonstrations could make or break Mississippi sex education policy. The Department of Education has a team reviewing proposed sex education programs, but so far they haven’t chosen a single curriculum that is evidence based, or proven to work by the Centers for Disease Control.

Mississippi has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in country – nearly double the national average. So the fact that school districts can choose between programs proven to reduce teen pregnancy and those that haven’t is proving controversial.

Energy is high on the national radar with rising gas prices and tensions in the Middle East.  The Gulf Coast Energy Summit in Biloxi drew national leaders and regional protesters.

Jackson Public Schools officials will get a chance to plead their case for keeping state accreditation. MPB's Daniel Cherry reports how the school system has failed to meet special education standards for more than a year, and state education officials are taking action.

Mississippi primary voters could play a critical role in the GOP race.

Republican presidential contenders are crisscrossing Mississippi with tomorrow’s primary election expected to play a decisive role in narrowing down the race.