Education

She tells us when she gets to the Naval Academy, she plans on studying cryptologic or cyber warfare.

The price tag of the design of the school costs around $20 million. Construction is set to be completed by August 2025.

Gautier Middle School Band Director Louise Smith was named the 2023 Teacher of the Year and Pascagoula High School Principal Dr. Caterria Payton was named 2023 Administrator of the Year.

The hope is, down the road, these tragedies can be put in the rearview mirror. For now, the grieving and healing process begins.

WLOX News is learning more about the investigation into a substitute teacher accused of inappropriate behavior toward students at Ocean Springs Middle School.

We were made aware that those totals were hundreds of thousands less than what some districts had calculated under the funding formula, MAEP. Some tell us they can’t figure out how the department came up with their numbers. So, we started asking questions.

As part of a partnership with Harrison County Soil and Water Conservation, the tree went into the ground, but not before they learned why trees are important.

Pascagoula High School Principal Dr. Caterria Payton was named the 2023 Mississippi Administrator of the Year, while Gautier Middle School Band Director Louise Smith was named the 2023 Mississippi Teacher of the Year.

It’s a character-building and educational entertainment program for children called Higher Impact Entertainment.

As witnesses to this fatal disaster, teens are able to experience what one wrong decision behind the wheel can lead to.

An incident at Ocean Springs Middle School involving a now former substitute teacher is under investigation.

Over the course of Gautier’s annual Earth Day festivities held at Shephard State Park, people shopped for plants and were allowed to visit the park for free admission.

The supplies were collected for South Delta High School, one of the schools hard hit by storms in the Delta last month.

Mississippi Teacher of the Year prepares for her next trip to advocate public education with U.S. Congressmen on Capitol Hill.

A Texas couple with ties to Mississippi State gifted the university $100 million.

According to the Board of Trustees, Dr. Felecia Nave, who served as the 20th President of Alcorn State University since 2019, has been replaced by Dr. Ontario S. Wooden Thursday.

Worm farms, compost stations, greenhouses and horticulture projects are some of everything that plants the seeds of having a green thumb and a green mindset with students and teachers.

Dozens of students gathered in the free speech zone on the University of Southern Mississippi’s campus, protesting a finalist in the school’s search for a new provost.

A lawsuit filed in September 2022 alleges that “both on its face and as applied, the Compulsory Vaccination Law violates [the plaintiffs’] First Amendment rights and their right to be free from unlawful statutes.”

Students and faculty at Central Elementary School are happy to be back in the classroom.

Students will return to class on Wednesday, April 12, with a two-hour delay.

There’s $100 million extra dollars on the way to schools around our state. How it will be divvied up is based on the number of students enrolled. And it will amount to a little more than $200 dollars per student. But it’s not exactly what advocates had hoped for.

The lab is the product of a partnership between Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s Harrison County Center in Long Beach, Kubota Tech and the National Coalition of Certification Centers.

They hope to get a concrete slab laid within the next two months and have the project finished by the Spring of 2024.

St. Patrick's High School received a $500,000 check from the school's foundation aiming to help with tuition assistance, teacher's pay and providing transportation for students in other counties to their school.

Jackson State has a new Air Force flight simulator program that engages and equips cadets with the technical aspects and hands-on training necessary for piloting a commercial or military-grade aircraft.

The training will focus on crafts like wielding, ship-fitting and pipe fitting through lectures and hands-on experiences.

Thursday, the accidental touch of a button created a frightening situation for students, staff and parents alike.

Friday’s lessons were interrupted at D’Iberville High School by a threatening messaged AirDropped to students and teachers.

This after Robert Taylor was denied the position after the Mississippi Senate voted not to confirm him as the state’s state superintendent of education Wednesday.