by MBJ Staff Published: January 5,2012
Tags: accounting, accreditation, business education, colleges, education, higher education, professors, teachers, teaching, universities
HATTIESBURG — The University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business has maintained its status as a dually accredited business and accounting school as determined by the board of directors of AACSB – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. According to the university, Southern Miss is one of only 643 AACSB-accredited schools in the [...] [...]
STARKVILLE — A major U.S. Department of Education award to Mississippi State University’s College of Education will aid in recruiting and training new middle school teachers from some of the state’s poorest, most rural areas. The department’s recent five-year Transition to Teaching grant for the Teacher Education for Rural Middle Schools (TERMS) program is designed [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 8,2011
Tags: academics, administrators, Congress, education, elementary education, public schools, school districts, schools, secondary education, state government, state law, students, teachers
JACKSON — Mississippi State Superintendent Tom Burnham said yesterday he would propose a law to allow the state to either forcibly merge or require new elections in failing school districts, because the current reform system does not work. “We will bring forward legislation this year to end conservatorship,” Burnham said at an orientation for newly [...] [...]
JACKSON — The Mississippi Department of Education has joined with the University of Kansas on a new test to determine if vocational students are ready for their chosen career. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Mississippi officials hope the Career Pathways Assessment System will be ready for use by 2014. Officials say the program will [...] [...]
JACKSON — Mississippi education officials are seeking a 13 percent budget increase for elementary and secondary schools in the coming year. State Superintendent of Education Tom Burnham presented the request today to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Burnham says he understands lawmakers face difficult decisions because money will be tight for the year that begins [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Fewer Mississippi districts are labeled failing. More are labeled successful or better. That is a three-year trend, reflected in unofficial data released yesterday by the state Department of Education. The Clarion-Ledger reports the labels for all of the state’s schools and districts will become official Friday pending a vote by the state [...] [...]
PASCAGOULA — Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said his office is looking into a complaint that a retiree benefit advisor in the Pascagoula school system steered retirees to private plan she was selling. Chaney told The Mississippi Press that the complaints allege Jackie Theisen, the Pascagoula district’s retiree benefit advisor, was soliciting district retirees to switch [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi schools cut 2 percent of the jobs for certified teachers this academic year because of tight budgets, state Department of Education officials told lawmakers yesterday. That’s a loss of about 705 jobs among the roughly 33,000 teaching positions. State Board of Education member Claude Hartley told the Joint Legislative Budget Committee [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — Legislation long sought by Democrats to save the jobs of up to 300,000 teachers, police and other public workers passed the Senate yesterday. The 61-39 vote — to be followed by a rush vote next week in the House — should come in time for many school districts to revisit decisions to lay [...] [...]
JACKSON — More than 200 teachers from Mississippi and surrounding states are expected to participate in the 26th-annual Advanced Placement Summer Institute July 12-17 at Millsaps College. Richard Smith, senior vice president and dean of the college, said the Millsaps AP Institute trains not only teachers but boosts the state’s educational system.
The AP Institute [...] [...]
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