Southern Echo - southernecho.org » house

This form needs Javascript to display, which your browser doesn't support. Sign up here instead

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.

“02/14/2012″ - Ayers Lecture Series – Leroy Johnson continues the MVSU Ayers Distinguished Lecture Series with a lecture on “Public Education Budgets as Public Education Policy.” The lecture will be held at the Supervisors’ Building, 115 Court Street, Historic Courthouse Square, Lexington, MS 39095). All lectures begin at 6:00pm.

“08/01/2010″ to “09/30/2010″ - Redistricting Public Hearings – Legislative Reapportionment Committee will hold public hearings to elicit public input concerning adoption of guidelines to redistrict the Congressional, Legislative and Judicial offices in 2011.

News Archive

house

“08/23/2012″ - Joint Meeting of the House and Senate Education Committees
Monday, August 20th, 2012

Thursday, August 23 - Room 216, Capitol - 10:00 am to 12:00 noon –Joint meeting of the House and Senate Education Committees to address Accountability Ranking and Evaluation.

“08/21/2012″ - Joint Education and Appropriations Committee Hearing
Monday, August 20th, 2012

Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - Room 201A, Capitol - 10:00 am to 12:00 noon - Joint meeting of Education and Appropriations Committees with a presentation on Teacher Evaluation from the Southern Regional Education Board.

Echo and Roundtable Release Charter Schools Opposition Analyses
Friday, March 30th, 2012

Earlier this week, Southern Echo and the Mississippi Delta Catalyst Roundtable released critical analyses of the Mississippi Senate’s charter school bill to express opposition. Included in its analyses are crafted amendments to make the bill better in the event a bill should be passed. Click here to access the document.

Mississippi’s House of Representatives’ charter school bill was never put forward on the floor of House and has died. For more of Echo’s analyses and other resources on charter schools, click here.

||