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Culture  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
January 21, 2022

State Board of Education approves five new early learning collaboratives to serve pre-K 4-year-olds

The five new ELCs will serve 840 pre-K 4-year-olds in eight new classrooms and 34 existing classrooms The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted Jan. 20, to add five new early learning collaboratives (ELC) to the current list of 18 to provide high-quality early childhood education pre-K programs to 4-year-old students. The ELC expansion…
Culture  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
January 21, 2022

Wicker, colleagues introduce bill to arm Ukraine against Russia

The legislation follows Senator Wicker, six other Senators’ visit to Kyiv where they met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. On Thursday, U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-MS), John Cornyn (R-TX), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), introduced the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act. The bill seeks to protect Ukrainian civilians from a…