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June 17, 2016

MINOR looks at population shifts affecting Mississippi Congressional seats

Bill Minor: Population dictates state’s power You may not pay much attention to population figures, but you should. Lack of it is costly in both political power, as well as economics. Perhaps the present generation knows this, but Mississippi has lost considerable influence in the U.S. House of Representatives in the past five decades because…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
June 17, 2016

Mississippi Kindergarteners showing progress

MS kindergarteners start behind, gain quickly Literacy tests show Mississippi kindergarteners are still starting behind but catching up quickly. For the second year in a row, test scores from 142 school districts show a majority of kindergarteners made great gains in literacy during the school year. Nearly 38,000 kindergarteners took the STAR Early Literacy exam…