Month: May 2020

To maintain the safety of MDE staff and to better serve education stakeholders, the Educator Licensure Call Center will reopen on an abbreviated schedule with […]

Beginning August 2020, each local school district must administer the Comprehensive Early Learning Observational Assessment, Brigance Screener III to every public pre-kindergarten student. The Screener […]

This training is offered to teachers that need to acquire twelve hours of approved early childhood coursework to teach in pre-k classrooms. The completion of […]

On April 16, 2020, the Mississippi Board of Education passed a waiver for the following rule in the Early Learning Guidelines for Classrooms Serving Three-and […]

The Early Childhood Education Conference that occurs in July has been cancelled. As an option for teachers and administrators of pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms the […]

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), signed into law on March 27, 2020, allows states and school districts to devote more […]

Pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. § 37-41-1, all public-school bus drivers are required to be re-certified every two years through the Mississippi Department of Education […]

As school closures continue and as the state develops plans to direct resources to the areas of greatest need, the MDE has prepared two brief […]

We appreciate the time you took in early April to respond to the initial request from the MDE regarding current efforts to support students who […]

Seal of Biliteracy Program Districts that intend to participate in the Seal of Biliteracy program must email the following information to Limeul Eubanks (leubanks@mdek12.org) in […]