Southern Echo is a leadership development, education and training organization working to develop effective accountable grassroots leadership in the African-American communities in rural Mississippi and the surrounding region through comprehensive training and technical assistance programs. Our work has carried Southern Echo staff into 12 additional states across the south and southwest.

Southern Echo's underlying goal is to empower local communities through effective community organizing work, in order to create a process through which community people can build the broad-based organizations necessary to hold the political, economic, educational, and environmental systems accountable to the needs and interests of the African-American community.

News Archive
(select news item)Echo Announces Mott Community Organizing RFPSouthern Echo and Catalyst Roundtable to hold convening on school consolidation at MS Valley State University October 14, 2010 Southern Echo and Pushback Network to conduct training on organizing to empower grassroots communities through fair redistricting plans MS Legislative Reapportionment Committee will hold hearings in September and August to elicit public input on redistricting Southern Coalition for Social Justice holds Redistricting Training in North Carolina for Organizers, Mapmakers and Social Scientists Mississippi Candidate Qualification Deadline for 2011 elections only changed by MS Legislature Echo and Roundtable Release Table and Map Showing Data the Gov.'s Commission on Education Structure Refused to ProvideSxSW Tech Team Hosts Video-Editing WorkshopEcho Offers Grant Writing Training to Community OrganizationsEcho & Roundtable Submit Report to Governor's Commission on Education StructureEcho and Roundtable issue report to MS Gov.’s Commission on School ConsolidationEcho and Roundtable submit recommendations to Search Committee for new State Supt. of EducationEcho and Roundtable Submit Proposed Changes to State Board of Edu. School District Report CardMS Dept. of Education amends District Report Card and sets up 2nd Round of APA reviewSouthern Echo says US Dept. of Education effort to tie Title I funding to charter school legislation is wrong for MississippiMS Dept. of Education releases data to show school district losses under Gov. Barbour’s 5% cutMDE Issues New 2009-2010 Guidelines for Free and Reduced LunchGov. Barbour slashes education funding by $114 million; Rep. Brown says cuts unnecessaryEcho and Roundtable submit 12 recommendations to MDE to increase “Report Card” transparencyUS Education Sec’y Duncan Ignores Major Charter School Studies

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