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JPS announces RFP for surplus school sites
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Officials with the Jackson Public School District (JPS) announced the launch of a Request for Proposal (RFP) process and the new Repurposing Initiative Webpage to help promote the reuse and redevelopment of the district’s surplus school sites. According to JPS officials, their goal is to revitalize the properties by transforming them […]
Before ‘Brown,’ the U.S. Had 100 Black Boarding Schools. Now, There Are 4
About 20 miles south of Jackson, Mississippi, sits one of the last Black boarding schools in the country: Piney Woods. Founded in 1909, the school was created for the illiterate children of poor Black sharecroppers with a focus on vocational learning. Its founder, Laurence Clifton Jones, came from Iowa to Mississippi with $1.65, looking to […]
Mississippi College has an enrollment issue. See why that's a 'good problem to have'
In a era where small colleges and universities across the country are struggling with shrinking enrollment, Mississippi College has more students than it knows what to do with. The private Christian school in Clinton off Interstate-55 has had surging enrollment the last two years, to a point that even after...
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