Picayune Early Learning Collaborative The Picayune Early Learning Collaborative has two sites: South Side Lower Elementary School and South Side Head Start. It has served 318 four-year-olds since its founding in 2014. Number of Classrooms in ELC 2 Students Served in 2022-2023 40 Number of Sites in ELC 2 “The Picayune Early Learning Collaborative is…
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Lamar County Learning Collaborative The Lamar County Early Learning Collaborative has eight sites: Baxterville Elementary School, Bellevue Elementary, Clifton Preston Head Start, Longleaf Elementary School, Oak Grove Elementary, Lumberton Head Start, Purvis Lower Elementary School, Lumberton Elementary School, and Sumrall Elementary School. It has served 1,353 four-year-olds since its founding in 2014. Number of Classrooms…
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Starkville Oktibbeha Early Learning Collaborative The Starkville Oktibbeha Early Learning Collaborative has four sites: Emerson Preschool, ICS Head Start Oktibbeha County, Sudduth Elementary, and West Elementary. It has served 618 four-year-olds since its founding in 2017. Number of Classrooms in ELC 14 Students Served in 2022-2023 280 Number of Sites in ELC 4 “We want…
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Editor’s Note: During the summer of 2022, Mississippi First hosted two communications interns. Each intern wrote a reflection about their experience. *** By Meredith Kent I Mississippi First Summer Intern 2022 Growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, I saw first-hand how the structure of a curriculum can help or harm the educational foundation that someone must have…
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Editor’s Note: During the summer of 2022, Mississippi First hosted two communications interns. Each intern wrote a reflection about their experience. *** By Mari Lampkin I Mississippi First Summer Intern 2022 The summer I turned twelve, I went on a field trip with the Sunflower County Freedom Project. We were at a civil rights museum somewhere…
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Public charter schools empower communities to design high-quality, public educational experiences to meet their students’ needs. Charter schools are free, public, and open to all children in relevant grades. In the 2022-2023 school year, Mississippi will have eight public charter schools operating in Jackson, Clarksdale, and Leflore County. Because Mississippi is a new charter school…
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