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Students look at books during a book fair at Schaumburg Elementary, part of the ReNEW charter network, in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana have seen a promising turnaround in their student reading scores after passing a series of similar literacy reforms. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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'Mississippi miracle': Kids' reading scores have soared in Deep South states
By SHARON LURYE - Associated Press
Tue,05/16/23-11:06PM , 364 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s a cliché that Kymyona Burk heard a little too often: “Thank God for Mississippi.”

As the state’s literacy director, she knew politicians in other states would say it when their reading test scores were down — because at least they weren’t ranked as low as Mississippi. Or Louisiana. Or Alabama.
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Jim Hill High School principal Bobby Brown, points out one of the outdated air-condition units that are installed throughout the Jackson, Miss., school, Jan. 12, 2023. A litany of infrastructure issues in the nearly 60-year-old school make for tough choices on spending COVID recovery funds on infrastructure or academics. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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For poor schools, building repairs zap COVID relief money
By SHARON LURYE - Associated Press
Mon,02/20/23-8:10AM , 557 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The air-conditioning gave out as students returned from summer break last year to Jim Hill High School in Jackson, Mississippi, forcing them to learn in sweltering heat. By Thanksgiving, students were huddling under blankets because the heat wasn’t working.
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