House votes for teacher pay raises
The Mississippi House voted Monday to give every teacher a $5,000 pay raise starting July 1, but educators shouldn’t plan on that extra cash because the proposal has zero chance of surviving.
Bill would let 2 workers per school carry guns
Mississippi lawmakers may let two teachers or other employees per public school carry concealed weapons.
Starkville district provides laptops to all teachers
Today, every teacher in the Starkville School District has a new laptop.
Gone will be the days of lugging six lesson plans and keeping up with tiny flash drives, and Rosia Jackson, who teaches at Sudduth Elementary, could not be more thrilled.
More teachers may win certification in Mississippi
Officials with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards say more Mississippi teachers are seeking certification from the group, and that could be good news for students.
Experts: Trained police needed for school security
The student’s attack began with a shotgun blast through the windows of a California high school. Rich Agundez, the El Cajon policeman assigned to the school, felt his mind shift into overdrive.
People yelled at him amid the chaos but he didn’t hear. He experienced “a tunnel vision of concentration.”
Gun group offers training for Utah teachers
Jessica Fiveash sees nothing wrong with arming teachers. She’s one herself, and learned Thursday how to safely use her 9 mm Ruger with a laser sight.
“If we have the ability to stop something, we should do it,” said the elementary school teacher, who along with nearly 200 other teachers in Utah took six hours of free gun training offered by the state’s leading gun lobby.
Pension funds reconsider investments in gun makers
From California to New York, teacher and public-worker retirement funds are reconsidering their investments in gun makers and confronting an uncomfortable fact: Their pensions have supported the manufacture of deadly weapons, in some cases the same type of gun used in the Connecticut school shooting.
Texas town allows teachers to carry concealed guns
In this tiny Texas town, children and their parents don’t give much thought to safety at the community’s lone school — mostly because some of the teachers are carrying concealed weapons.
Feds: Teachers embroiled in test-taking fraud
It was a brazen and surprisingly long-lived scheme, authorities said, to help aspiring public school teachers cheat on the tests they must pass to prove they are qualified to lead their classrooms.
Obama renews call for aid to halt teacher layoffs
Tight school budgets have meant fewer teachers, larger classes and shorter school years, according to a White House report that President Barack Obama says shows the need for Congress to pass his proposals to help states reduce teacher layoffs.
Teachers get ‘debit cards’ for school supplies
Beginning this fall, Mississippi teachers will have a new way to purchase classroom supplies — state-issued procurement cards which will function similarly to debit cards.
Local reaction mixed to merit pay for teachers
Educators across the Golden Triangle are watching closely as state lawmakers weigh the pros and cons of performance-based teacher incentives.
Columbus schools to hire 49 teachers
Two months after informing 68 teachers their contracts would not be renewed, Columbus Municipal School District Interim Superintendent Dr. Martha Liddell announced Friday that 49 vacancies will be filled, with impacted teachers having first priority to reapply for their jobs.
This Thanksgiving, thank a teacher
If Lowndes County’s teachers were to emit a warm glow, the Mississippi University for Women campus would have been bright as the sun Wednesday afternoon.
Teachers spending more than time in classroom
As the sluggish economy drags on, teachers are providing more to their students than just knowledge.
A national study released this month found that nationwide, teachers spent an average of $356 of their own money each year on supplies and instructional materials for their classrooms — over and above the money parents spend each year for their children’s own supplies.
Starkville School District to cut half of its teacher assistants
Officials discussed changes that will occur as the Starkville School District completes bond issue construction and faces the coming year with serious budget cuts.
CMSD: Cutting teachers will be last resort
The head of Columbus Municipal School District says it’s too early to tell if any teachers will be cut when the April 15 deadline for non-renewal rolls around.
Columbus teacher jobs on the line
Columbus Municipal School District’s payroll could be 50 employees lighter this April.