Today’s Tupelo School Board meeting is about to begin. Four of the five board members are present. Rob Hudson is not currently here. Today’s agenda is three pages long, so it may be a lengthier meeting. I don’t expect it to pass last year’s record of three hours, though. The board will not be voting [...]

Last week, the Daily Journal ran a six-day package of stories on the issue of teacher quality and the need for Mississippi to attract more of its best and brightest residents to be classroom teachers. The package is part of the “State of Our Schools” a year-long look at Mississippi’s education system and its challenges [...]

The Tupelo School Board’s noon meeting is about to begin. The board held a work session earlier this morning and discussed dual enrollment, construction projects, the new accountability model, its marketing plan, its professional development plan and Bring Your Own Device. It will also meet again at 5 p.m. tonight at the Early Childhood Education [...]

Tupelo’s School Board is holding a work session this morning with several presentations on the agenda. They will not be taking any action here, but will meet again at noon and 5 p.m. It is a full day for the school day. All five board meetings are present, including newly-appointed board member Joe Babb, who [...]

Education reporter Sarah Carr will be at Square Books in Oxford on Tuesday, April 2 at 5 p.m. to speak about her new book “Hope Against Hope.” The book tells the story of the New Orleans public school system after Hurricane Katrina through the eyes of a veteran principal, a first-year teacher and a 14-year-old [...]

Today’s meeting of the Tupelo School has just begun. Only four of the five board members are present. Amy Heyer’s term expired on March 1. Tupelo Mayor Jack Reed Jr. is expected to announce his nominee for Heyer’s replacement during a 3 p.m. press conference today. The city council would then have to approve that [...]

Today we began the third installment of the Daily Journal’s year-long State of Our Schools series. The entire series can be found here. During my reporting for this week’s series, I spoke with former State Superintendent of Education Tom Burnham, who now leads the Principal Corps program based at the University of Mississippi. Much information [...]

Former Plantersville Middle Principal Bill Horton was honored posthumously Tuesday night at the Lee County School District’s Administrator of the Year. Horton died of a heart attack in November after seven years at the school. He was a coach in the district before that. His daughter Ginger Murray; her husband, Steve Murray and his grandchildren [...]

Thomas Street Elementary gifted teacher Tara Harris was named the Tupelo School District’s Teacher of the Year on Tuesday night. The 14th-year teacher is National Board Certified, having received the certification in 2003 and renewed it in 2012. She also played large role in the Arts Integration Initiative at Pierce Street and later at Thomas [...]

Today’s Tupelo School Board meeting has begun. All five board members are present. The board will also meet tonight at 5 p.m. at Parkway Elementary. It will discuss the agenda at this noon meeting, but will not vote until tonight’s meeting. Tupelo Mayor Jack Reed is reading a proclamation from Gov. Phil Bryant proclaiming this [...]