RECRUITMENT SPOTLIGHT
RANKIN COUNTY EDUCATORS HONORED DR. ERIC HITE of McLaurin High School in the Rankin County
HAWKINS WINS STUDENT LOAN CONTEST DAndra Hawkins won MPE’s 2024 Student Loan Contest. This is the fifth year MPE has provided this teacher reten - tion benefit. A graduate of Mississippi State University,
School District has been named Economics Teacher of the Year by the Mississippi Council on Economic Education (MCEE). He was honored during an MCEE celebration in Jackson in October. Dr. Hite’s seventh-grade students
DAndra teaches 5th and 8th grade ELA at Quitman
placed third in the nation in the 2024 Capitol Hill Challenge, a national financial literacy competition in which more than 600,000 students from 1,000 schools competed.
County Middle School in the Quitman County School District. MPE will pay $3,000 of her stu - dent loans. She was selected as the winner via a random drawing of our First-Year Professional members. Congratulations, DAndra!
DR. SCOTT RIMES , superinten - dent of the Rankin County School District, was named 2024 Missis - sippi Superintendent of the Year by the Mississippi Association of School Administrators earlier this week. Dr. Rimes is in his 22nd year with the district after serving five years at Provine High School
in the Jackson Public School District. This is his third year to serve as superintendent.
MPE’s recruitment incentives provide a great way for you to earn a free membership, as well as a little extra money. You earn a free year’s membership for simply recruiting five new members, and you earn money for each new member recruited after five new members, and you earn money for each new member recruited after five. Encourage your professional co-workers and friends to join the premiere organization for professional educators in Mississippi. Recruitment Incentives
• Five new members = one year’s free membership • 6-9 new members = one year’s membership + $10 per member* • 10-14 new members = one year’s membership + $15 per member* • 15+ new members = one year’s membership + $20 per member*
You will receive $5 per student member recruited.
Recruitment bonus checks will be awarded at the end of each quarter, with the first quarter beginning July 1 and ending September 30. Credit will be given for each new member who joins or re-joins** between July 1 and June 30. Free memberships will be credited towards the next year’s membership.
* credit will be given for each additional member after five ** member must have previously been made inactive for a period of three months or more
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