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Board of Education names Ray Morgigno interim state superintendent
By JULIA JAMES - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,06/16/23-1:50PM , 323 Reads 12,267 Statewide
The Mississippi State Board of Education named Ray Morgigno as interim state superintendent, to serve “tentatively” through June 2024 while the board conducts a national search for a permanent replacement.

The board met in executive session for four and a half hours Thursday before naming Morgigno to the role.
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National report shows Mississippi improved in education, stagnated in other areas of child well-being
By JULIA JAMES - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,06/15/23-11:18AM , 350 Reads 14,246 Statewide
A new national report on child well-being ranks Mississippi 32nd in the nation for education, the only measure in which the state’s rank has meaningfully improved in the last decade.
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Landen Maddox reads a book after breakfast on the first of school at Clarksdale Collegiate Public Charter School Wednesday, July 25, 2018. Clarksdale Collegiate is the state’s first rural charter school. Credit: Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/ Report for America

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Charter schools apply to open in Clarksdale and Greenville in 2024
By JULIA JAMES - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Wed,06/14/23-2:48PM , 4,217 Reads 15,142 Statewide
Two proposed charter schools have made it through the first stage of the annual application process with hopes of opening in the Delta.

This year’s application cycle saw fewer applicants at this stage than in previous years, with five applicants in 2021 and nine in 2022.

The schools are:
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Judge denies trans student’s plea to be free to wear dress at graduation
By JULIA JAMES - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,05/22/23-2:26PM , 227 Reads 6,099 Statewide
A judge will not block the Harrison County School District from requiring a trans girl to dress as a boy for her graduation ceremony Saturday.

The order was given from the bench late Friday night after attempts to settle the matter in conference and a hearing Friday afternoon, according to court records.
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