TLC cancels ’19 Kids and Counting,’ plans education push
After weeks in limbo stemming from revelations of sexual misconduct by one of its stars, the TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting” is officially dead.
Waste company to cut recycling program
Mississippi Industrial Waste, a commercial solid waste company in Columbus, will stop its curbside recycling program at the end of this month.
The company sent notice letters to local customers this week.
Weather cancels tour of Mississippi State trial gardens
MISSISSIPPI STATE — The threat of inclement weather forced organizers to cancel a game-day tour of new trial gardens at Mississippi State University. Bulldog fans
MERIT program survives as elective course
The highly contentious gifted program within the Lowndes County School District was saved Friday, thanks in part to the outcry from students’ parents.
A standing-room-only crowd packed into the Lowndes County School Board meeting Friday morning, anxiously waiting to hear the school board’s decision on whether or not to cut the gifted program, commonly referred to as MERIT, for seventh and eighth-graders within the district.
Gifted programs serve unique purposes, instructors say
The proposal to end gifted classes in the county’s seventh and eighth grades will go before the Lowndes County School Board Friday.
Parents of the affected students have promised to be at the meeting and voice their opinions on why the district should not only continue to offer the gifted classes, commonly referred to as MERIT, but should offer them alongside pre-Advanced Placement classes.
Our view: MERIT program has, uh, merit…..
Few stories have produced the number of comments as did Tuesday’s report on a plan in the Lowndes County School District to suspend the MERIT program for its seventh and eighth-grade students.
Parents outraged by loss of gifted program
Although officials say it has been a move three years in the making, parents and students responded with shock and anger over the Lowndes County School District’s decision to drop its gifted program, commonly known as MERIT, for the county’s seventh- and eighth-graders.