MDE COVID-19 Guidance to Districts as of June 11, 2020

State Board of Education Provides Districts with Flexibilities to Operate Schools in the 2020-21 School Year 
The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) suspended several policies today to give local school districts scheduling flexibility for the 2020-21 school year to deal with the impact of COVID-19…. 

MDE Call Center Alert 
Starting Monday, June 15, 2020, the MDE call center will be open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.to 5 p.m. To reach an MDE staff member, please call 601-359-3513.  

Educator Licensure Call Center Alert 
Starting Monday, June 15, 2020, the Educator Licensure Call Center will be open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. You may reach a licensure team member at 601-359-3483.  

Due to the anticipated high volume of calls, please visit www.mdek12.org/licensure and the Educator Licensure section of www.mdek12.org/covid19 before calling the office or emailing questions to the teachersupport@mdek12.org email address. Answers to most questions we receive are addressed on those webpages

Do You Have Questions for MDE?  
Please check the 
MDE COVID-19 Information webpage before emailing your questions to MDE staff. The answers to most of the questions we receive are addressed on the webpage. We also regularly add guidance, answers to new questions and links to our daily update email on this webpage. Daily updates are posted in the Administrator News section of the EdUpdate. 

 Announcements from all previous email updates are posted in the Administrator News section of the EdUpdate.