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Although unusual in the West, school corporal punishment is common in Mississippi, with 31,236 public school students [2] paddled at least one time. [3] A greater percentage of students were paddled in Mississippi than in any other state, according to government data for the 2011–2012 school year.
Hodding Carter III described the Mississippi association as "the biggest, most tightly organized, the most powerful Citizens' Council of them all." [11] White attendance in Jackson public schools dropped from 21,000 to less than 9,000. Council schools provided the high quality instruction of white children by white teachers.
"The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980". Journal of Southern History. 73 (2): 496– 497. doi:10.2307/27649461. JSTOR 27649461. - Located at ProQuest; Sunderman, Gail L (2007). "The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870 - 1980". Southern Quarterly. 44 (4): 211.
In 2024, only 4% of Mississippi school districts earned a failing grade of a D or F. Yet, in 2022 that number was closer to 12%. To put it simply, Mississippi school districts are improving from ...
An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C., in 1957. In the United States, school integration (also known as desegregation) is the process of ending race-based segregation within American public and private schools.
Statistics show that Mississippi's children have gone from having almost the worst scores on the standardized national reading test for fourth-graders in 2013 to narrowly exceeding the national ...
Desoto Christian Academy is a private school in Olive Branch, Mississippi.. The school was founded in 1970 as Ark Academy, a segregation academy for caucasian students exclusively, one of dozens opened across Mississippi at that time in the wake of Supreme Court rulings on school integration.
Covington County Schools is a public school district in Covington County, Mississippi that serves students living in all areas of the county, [4] including the towns of Collins, Seminary, and Mount Olive. The district serves approximately 2,600 students within its boundaries.