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Students in hundreds of Mississippi’s K-12 schools can now receive telehealth services under a partnership between the Mississippi Department of Education and the University of Mississippi Medical Center. The program launched in August 2022 and currently covers more than 70 districts, 406 schools and 183,456 students, or about 37% of students in the state. “In
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A space for public conversation on race in the South, including the persisting impact of private academies.
I Offered My Best to a System Not Meant For All the Others I Am by Katrina Byrd
I Never Saw the System by Ellen Morris Prewitt-Myers
It Was On the Back of Black Students by W. Ralph Eubanks
MISSISSIPPI RACE VIOLENCE PROJECT
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