Jackson, MS – On August 11, 2009 Southern Echo and other members of the MS Delta Catalyst Roundtable attended the Legislative Task Force to Study Underperforming Schools and School Districts…
Jackson, MS – It is June 11, 2009 and Mississippi is 2 months overdue on passage of a state budget. The Republican-controlled state Senate, dominated by Rep. Governor Haley Barbour,…
Southern Echo staff will hold a 3-day retreat to sharpen its vision, strategies and programs of work regarding public education in Mississippi in order to define the path of its community organizing work around education for the next two years.
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,…
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.
