School Accountability

An excellent early education experience for every child (A Blueprint Mississippi 2011 recommendation) $5-million appropriation for Mississippi Building Blocks Based on a per-student cost of $2,000, this will allow MBB in 2013-2014 to reach approximately 2,500 children in child care centers located primarily in low-income areas of Mississippi An excellent teacher in every classroom (A Blueprint Mississippi […]

The Children First Act of 2009 grew out of the recommendations made by the Joint Legislative Task Force on Underperforming Schools. Members of the task force spent the summer and fall of 2008 touring low performing and high performing schools in Mississippi and hearing from experts about what other states are doing to improve failing

Teachers, students, parents and communities have important roles to play throughout the school year to ensure that students get the most from their education. Each year, schools assess student achievement to gauge the progress being made in their classrooms.  This year, Mississippi is using new assessments from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)

Student achievement is on the rise in Mississippi! The Mississippi Department of Education has released the 2013 school and school district accountability ratings. Eighteen districts received the state’s highest rating of A, a tremendous achievement for those communities! Congratulations to the students, teachers, principals, superintendents, and parents in these outstanding school districts. More good news: the

The following are the acronyms used on the accountability results spreadsheet and the full titles for which they stand. QDI: Quality of Distribution Index AYP RLA: Adequate Yearly Progress Reading Language Arts AYP MTH: Adequate Yearly Progress Math AYP OAI: Adequate Yearly Progress Other Academic Indicators HSCI: High School Completion Index AYP RLA: Adequate Yearly

Misleading information about the Common Core State Standards has been circulated in Mississippi over the last year. Some of it is based on talking points from groups that have carried out an anti-public schools, privatization agenda in other states. The stated goal of opponents in Mississippi is to pause or halt implementation of Common Core State

State dropout data on Class of 2010, reported by MDE May 4, 2011: Mississippi’s dropout rate is 17% for the four-year cohort that began with first time 9th graders in the 2006-2007 school year and ended with the 2009-2010 school year. Click here to find school district-level dropout rates. Dropout rates for Class of 2010

Education Week has released its Quality Counts “report card” on the nation’s public schools. The good news is that our Standards and Accountability once again received outstanding grades with an overall Standards, Assessment and Accountability grade of B+, ranking us just above the national average and in the top half of all states. Our standards are high and

The Mississippi School Boards Association has announced that 20 Mississippi school districts have been recognized as 2010 Lighthouse School Leaders. This recognition is awarded in three categories to districts that reach the highest levels of student achievement: Beacon Awards, Lantern Awards and Torch Awards. The Beacon Award recognizes school districts with a QDI of 200 or above

The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) issued a report today showing that Mississippi has made significant gains in student achievement on national measures in the past couple of years. Mississippi students have made significant progress in a number of areas, including: Achieving the largest percentage-point increase in the nation in reading at the Basic Level on the National Assessment of