Analysis highlights shortfall in state public education funding

April 14, 2018

Dr. Howard Savage, Jr. named 2018 Administrator of the Year

By Heather Wolpert-Gawron, March 27, 2018, Edutopia. (Photo credit ©iStock/vgajic) My mentor for the last 15 years, Liz Harrington, is retiring this year. She’s the one who, as our department chairperson, advocated for our weekly collaboration time and fought each semester to maintain our precious planning time as a department. Liz is the one I laugh with each Friday when…

Analysis highlights shortfall in state public education funding

By Kayleigh Skinner, Mississippi Today, April 16, 2018. A new analysis of state-by-state spending on public education found that a high school senior in Mississippi received about $33,000 less in state funding than the national average over the course of his or her public education. Efforts to rework the state’s public education funding formula died in…

Dr. Howard Savage, Jr. named 2018 Administrator of the Year

Jackson, MS. — MAE member Dr. Howard Savage, Jr., principal of Quitman High School, was named Mississippi’s 2018 Administrator of the Year during the annual awards luncheon on Friday, April 13, at the Old Capitol Inn in Jackson. Dr. Savage is no stranger to accolades, having been an awardee at the first annual Mississippi Excellence…