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Mississippi schools chief: Ease mandates on some tests

by Emily Wagster Pettus
| January 6, 2021 3:03 PM

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi high school students will take end-of-course exams and third graders will take mandated reading assessments this spring, state Superintendent of Education Carey Wright told lawmakers Wednesday.

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