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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…

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…

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…

By Tim Walker, NEAToday — “Something has to change,” says Noah Karvelis, a teacher at Trios Rios Elementary School just outside of Phoenix. Only in his second year teaching, Karvelis has already seen too many colleagues walk away from the profession in a state where the salaries are so low. Arizona ranks last in teacher pay and…

April 4, 2018, By Tim Walker NEAToday The proliferation of high-stakes testing is most often associated with No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the national education law that was in place for more than a decade. With good reason – the law imposed a crushing accountability regime that turned many of our schools into test prep…

April 9, 2018 Dear MAE Family, We write to let you know that the family of Joseph Chennault is planning a memorial service in his honor at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 28, at the Carthage United Methodist Church, 201 East Franklin Street, Carthage, Mississippi. A reception will follow the service. Many of you have…

NEA.org, April 2, 2018, by Mary Ellen Flannery — Photo credit AP/Sue Ogrocki More than 30,000 angry and frustrated educators from across Oklahoma walked out of schools and swarmed the state Capitol on Monday to demand that state lawmakers invest in public education, while thousands more in Kentucky also rallied to protest legislative neglect. “Why…

JACKSON, MS. — A LETTER FROM MAE PRESIDENT JOYCE HELMICK April 4, 2018 Dear Members, On this, one of the most somber anniversaries in our nation’s history, I wanted to reach out to you with a word of hope. America lost a great leader when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered. But we didn’t…

JACKSON, MS. Today, we’re wishing our Judy Webb, long-time MAE employee, a most happy and adventuresome retirement. Judy wore many hats during her time with us, and our members were always encouraged by her kind, helpful dependability. Congratulations, Judy! Keep your phone on…we’ll have plenty of questions that will need your expert answers!

Arielle Dreher, Jackson Free Press, March 23, 2018 JACKSON — The Institutions of Higher Learning board named Alfred Rankins Jr. the new commissioner of higher education for Mississippi on Friday, March 23. His tenure begins on July 1. Rankins is now the president of Alcorn State University. “Dr. Rankins has experience at both the system level…