Year after year, Mississippi is always the laughing stock of the K-12 education world. Its students continuously score low on standardized exams, and its graduation rate is abysmal. Don’t just take our word for it. Here are 2 stories that illustrate how troubled Mississippi’s K-12 education system has become. Mississippi failed to fully fund education in 2015. It’s no secret that education and its funding has never been a top priority in Mississippi. At the beginning of the year, the state ranked dead last in the nation when it came to educational opportunities and success for its students, but that …
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