There will be an important State Board of Education meeting today, Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 3:30pm at the Mississippi Department of Education regarding (1) 2010 legislative priorities, (2) the 2011 fiscal year budget, and (3) a 5-year strategic plan.
The South X Southwest Experiment will hold a 4-day strategic planning retreat in Albuquerque, NM for an intergenerational mix of 36 community activists from SouthWest Organizing Project, Southwest Workers Union, Southern Echo and the MS Delta Catalyst Roundtable.
The ten partner organizations in the MS Delta Catalyst Roundtable will hold a 3-day strategic planning retreat in Jackson, MS to focus its community organizing work around public education in Mississippi for the next two years.
This is the 3rd week of Southern Echo’s 3-week GIS mapping and redistricting training for 8 members of Echo’s Census & Redistricting Team to prepare them to train others in Mississippi, southern and southwestern states in 2010 in anticipation of the 2011 redistricting process.
Southern Echo will provide 3 weeks of GIS mapping and redistricting training for 8 members of Echo’s Census & Redistricting Team to prepare them to train others in Mississippi, southern and southwestern states in 2010 in anticipation of the 2011 redistricting process.
