Education
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MDE’s Emergency Procurements Spell Mishandling and Mismanagement
The State Board of Education (SBE) voted recently to allow the State Superintendent of Education to declare an emergency in order to expedite the process of awarding contracts involving up to $231 million of these COVID-19 relief funds.
Mississippi’s Public School System Post COVID-19
It’s past time for K-12 expenditures to reflect the downturn in enrollment. It’s also time for reforms to the educational establishment to change the way students learn. The need for large-scale investments in costly infrastructure need to be scrutinized in our digital age.
Did the dog eat MDE’s homework?
In early June 2020, the Office of the State Auditor (OSA) issued a scathing seventeen page report on the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) and it appears MDE may need to repeat the last eleven years.