2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 37 - EDUCATION
Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance.
37-13-63 - Minimum length of school term.

§ 37-13-63. Minimum length of school term.
 

(1)  All public schools in the state shall be kept in session for at least one hundred eighty (180) days in each scholastic year. 

(2)  If the school board of any school district shall determine that it is not economically feasible or practicable to operate any school within the district for the full one hundred eighty (180) days required for a scholastic year as contemplated due to an enemy attack, a manmade, technological or natural disaster in which the Governor has declared a disaster emergency under the laws of this state or the President of the United States has declared an emergency or major disaster to exist in this state, said school board may notify the State Department of Education of such disaster and submit a plan for altering the school term. If the State Board of Education finds such disaster to be the cause of the school not operating for the contemplated school term and that such school was in a school district covered by the Governor's or President's disaster declaration, it may permit said school board to operate the schools in its district for less than one hundred eighty (180) days. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, §§ 6274-10, 6411-12; Laws,  1953, Ex Sess, ch. 16, § 10; ch. 23, § 12; Laws, 1986, ch. 492, § 86, 1992, ch. 524, § 7; Laws, 2003, ch. 544, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved Apr. 21, 2003.)