Jackson, MS – May 15-18, 2009 the South X Southwest Experiment convened more than 70 community activists, leaders and public officials from New Mexico, Texas and Mississippi in Jackson, MS…
Jackson, MS, Nov. 21, 2008 -- Three Echo staff received 5 days of day-long intensive training on website management from Samiya Bashir, principal consultant of Lead Time Consulting of Austin,…
Jackson, MS, Nov. 19, 2008 — First state officials adopted policies to transform education policy regarding underperforming schools, then the children of Barr Elementary in Jackson entertained by singing a series of educational and patriotic songs.
The Task Force on Underperforming Schools met in the Board Room of the MS Dept. of Education on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008 to adopt a set of recommendations to the 2009 state legislature that were designed to improve low-performing schools. This was intended to be the last meeting of the Task cheap xanax no prescription Force.
State Supt. of Education Hank Bounds told the Task Force and about 60 educators, parents and education activists that the proposed recommendations will hold school leadership, including school boards and superintendents, accountable to newly-developed benchmarks and standards of leadership based on the premise that school leadership must be responsible to ensure that the children are provided the education to which they are entitled. The proposed recommendations were adopted unanimously by the Task Force. (more…)
Southern Echo will participate in the Pushback Network Steering Committee meeting in NYC Dec. 2 to Dec. 4, 2008 where representatives from 8 states will analyze the voter registration and turnout work in the November election and strategies for building grassroots civic engagement in several regions in the nation.
State Legislature will spend three months wrangling over public policies and appropriations. Public education, health care and tax reform will be major battlegrounds.
