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Charter Board Issues Statement on School Performance

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Preliminary data on the 2015-2016 proficiency rates of ReImagine Prep and Midtown Public students has been released by the Mississippi Department of Education. A statement from the Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board says that the schools are not currently meeting the board’s expectations for performance. A comprehensive evaluation of the two charter schools will be released later in the fall.

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Measuring Students’ and Schools’ Performance

School Funding /

Measuring the performance of Mississippi students, and by extension, their schools and school districts, is a complex task. That task has been complicated in recent years by annual changes in assessments (MCT2, MCT3/PARCC, MAP), and a complete overhaul of academic standards (Mississippi’s standards now are more rigorous than two-thirds of all states). The Mississippi Department of Education

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2016 Third-grade Reading Results

Student Achievement /

The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced that 92.01% of 2015-2016 third graders achieved a passing score on the 3rd Grade Reading Summative Asssessment, including students who were retested over the summer. In the initial test administration in March-April, 87% of students achieved a passing score. Final results after Summer 2016 retesting: 92.01%, or 36,348 students, met

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What’s Behind the Awards Curtain

Privatization /

State leaders are congratulating themselves for a recently announced national education award, which hails Mississippi for Governor Bryant’s 2013 “transformational education reform package,” citing charter schools, the A-F rating system, and literacy initiatives as markers for success. The award is given by the Education Commission of the States (ECS), of which Governor Bryant is a

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Letters of Intent Submitted for 14 New Charter Schools

Charter Schools /

Nine charter school operators, five of which are headquartered out-of-state, submitted letters of intent to the Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board for 14 new charter schools to open in the fall of 2017 or thereafter (11 in the Jackson Public School District, 1 in Newton Municipal School District, 1 in Sunflower County School District, and 1 in

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2015 Third-grade Reading Results

Student Achievement /

The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has announced that 92% of 2014-2015 third graders achieved a passing score on the 3rd Grade Reading Summative Assessment. This percentage includes results from the initial testing period in April and retesting periods in May and late summer. Students must score at least 926 on the 3rd Grade Reading Summative Assessment

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