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JPS board approves Imagine Learning partnership and ACT district testing
Summary
The Jackson Public School District board approved MOUs with Imagine Learning for online and blended courses and an agreement with ACT Education Corporation to administer ACT district testing during school hours, citing expanded participation and reported score gains across cohorts.
The Jackson Public School District board approved two instructional agreements Monday, endorsing an online/blended learning memorandum of agreement with Imagine Learning (formerly Edgenuity) and a district testing agreement with ACT Education Corporation.
Assistant Superintendent Marshall Thomas presented the Imagine Learning MOA as a platform for credit recovery, first-time coursework, professional development and on-demand tutoring. Thomas said the provider’s courses are approved by the Mississippi Department of Education and meet state standards. She told the board that in the 2024–25 school year 3,801 students used the blended platform and 1,820 students completed coursework; administration presented a breakdown that included 201 credit-recovery completions, 1,336 blended-learning users, 2,146 initial-credit users and 414 students who used virtual tutoring.
Thomas also recommended that the district enter an agreement with ACT Education Corporation to become an ACT district testing site. She said the district expanded ACT district testing from a single senior-year sitting for the class of 2023 to three sittings across grades 10–12 for the class of 2025, and reported cohort-average composite scores rising from 15.2 (2023) to 15.6 (2024) and 15.7 (2025), with incremental gains in English, math, reading and science.
A board member moved to approve both items together; the motion was seconded and approved on a voice vote with no nays recorded on the public transcript.
The agreements are intended to increase student access to coursework and testing during regular school hours, reducing the need for students to travel for Saturday testing and expanding online learning options for credit recovery and course access. The board did not record additional conditions or implementation dates on the public record.
