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May 18, 2015

Palazzo raising dyslexia awareness

Mississippi lawmaker pushes for dyslexia awareness Rep. Steven Palazzo and his wife, Lisa, recognized about three years ago that their youngest son, Bennett, was struggling with reading so they hired tutors, but nothing seemed to work. They had the fourth-grader tested recently and learned he had dyslexia, a learning disability that involves difficulty learning to…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 18, 2015

Cleveland, MS schools face federal court action

Feds seek to merge Cleveland schools CLEVELAND – A federal judge must decide whether this Mississippi Delta college town’s school system is an oasis of integration or a glaring example of continued segregation. The court hearing opening today before U.S. District Judge Debra Brown in Greenville is something of a dinosaur. Court desegregation orders were…