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May 21, 2014

$8.4 million for Common Core tests approved by Mississippi Dept. of Ed

Mississippi approves $8.4 million for Common Core tests JACKSON — Mississippi’s state Board of Education has approved spending about $8.4 million on standardized tests aligned with the new Common Core state standards. The board voted May 16 for the first year of what could be a four-year contract with a division of the British firm…
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May 21, 2014

Greenville Mayor under fire for public schools remarks to @NBC reporter

Simmons brothers slam Cox quotes GREENVILLE — Greenville City Councilman Errick Simmons is demanding Mayor John Cox resign following an interview he granted to an NBC reporter, who was looking into the Greenville Public School District’s racial makeup 60 years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that “separate…