8/2/2010 - Jackson, Miss.

The Mississippi Education Achievement Council will meet at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 4, 2010, in the IHL Board Room in the Universities Center, 3825 Ridgewood Road, Jackson, MS 39211.

The council was established by the Mississippi Legislature during the 2010 regular session to establish education achievement goals for the state, monitor and report on the state’s progress toward these goals and prepare an annual report card compiled from the annual reports submitted by each state institution of higher learning and community and junior college in the state. This will be an organizational meeting during which the council will select a chairman, vice chairman and secretary.

The Mississippi Education Achievement Council consists of representatives of the Mississippi Legislature, the Governor’s Office, the State Institutions of Higher Learning, Mississippi’s Community and Junior Colleges, the Mississippi State Board of Education, the Mississippi Department of Mental Health and the Mississippi Economic Council.

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