Mississippi currently has 435,000 students in K-12 public schools and approximately 45,000 in private schools. Under current ...

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In two years, the state has gone from funding the tuition costs of a minority of the state’s private school students to now ...

"They just disappeared," State Superintendent Eric Mackey said of the nearly 2,100 missing students unaccounted for this fall.