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By Bracey Harris

Editor’s note: With less than a month to go before Mississippi schools traditionally open their doors, teachers aren’t the only ones trying to get ready for what that might mean. The newsletter normally featured here is on break this week as Bracey digs deep into what the fall could look like for students and educators who must start the school year while the coronavirus pandemic is still raging. The full Mississippi Learning newsletter will be back in your inbox on July 24.

Send story ideas and news tips to harris@hechingerreport.org. Tweet at @BraceyHarris. Read high-quality news about innovation and inequality in education at The Hechinger Report. And find our coverage of news and trends in education in Mississippi here.

Quote of the Week

“It’s a deep-rooted issue that everyone has just kind of ignored. It’s like everybody knows buy nobody wants to open that can of worms.”

- Teri Shellman, a recent Black graduate of Caledonia High School on the resistance to changing the campus’ mascot nicknamed the “Feds,” in a nod to the Confederacy, in an interview with Mississippi Today.