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2020 Mississippi Code
Title 37 - Education
Chapter 3 - State Department of Education
- § 37-3-1. Organization of state department of education
- § 37-3-2. Certification of teachers and administrators
- § 37-3-3. Office and seal of department
- § 37-3-3.1. State Department of Education board room designated the Senator Grey Ferris Board Room
- § 37-3-4. School Executive Management Institute; basic and continuing education courses for school board members; additional required training for local school board members and the local superintendent; exemption of certain school administrators
- § 37-3-5. General duties of department; grants of property to public and agricultural high schools; administration of department
- § 37-3-7. Study of costs of insurance on school buildings and facilities
- § 37-3-8. Studies and reports by department of education relating to teaching out of fields and mastery of subject matters
- § 37-3-9. Appointment, qualifications, compensation and bond of State Superintendent of Public Education
- § 37-3-11. General duties of state superintendent
- § 37-3-12. Responsibility of state superintendent for planning functions of department
- § 37-3-13. Appointment and compensation of deputy superintendents, associate superintendents, directors and other employees; exemption of personnel actions of State Department of Education from State Personnel Board procedures for limited time period
- § 37-3-15 through 37-3-23. Repealed
- § 37-3-25. Appointment, compensation and duties of Director of Division of Vocational and Technical Education
- § 37-3-27. Repealed
- § 37-3-29. Repealed
- § 37-3-31. Repealed
- § 37-3-33 through 37-3-37. Repealed
- § 37-3-39. Custody and disbursement of funds of department
- § 37-3-41. Repealed
- § 37-3-43. Repealed
- § 37-3-46. Assistance to certain local schools or school districts to establish program of educational accountability and assessment of performance; personnel appraisal and compensation system for school employees; programs to prevent dropouts
- § 37-3-47. Repealed
- § 37-3-48. Repealed
- § 37-3-49. Adoption by school district of instructional program and management system; paperwork reduction; exemption of certain district
- § 37-3-51. Notification of Department of Education of conviction of licensed person of certain felonies or sex offenses
- § 37-3-53. "Mississippi Report Card" on performance of students, public schools and charter schools
- § 37-3-55. Repealed
- § 37-3-57. Repealed
- § 37-3-59. Summer kindergarten program for Grade 1 readiness; summer developmental program for Grades 1 through Grade 8
- § 37-3-61. Alliance for Families programs; authorization; objectives
- § 37-3-63. Alliance for Families program; procedure for establishment
- § 37-3-65. Alliance for Families program; purpose
- § 37-3-67. Alliance for Families program; components
- § 37-3-69. Alliance for Families program; measurement of success
- § 37-3-71. Alliance for Families program; participation by students and school districts; evaluation and report by State Board of Education
- § 37-3-73. Rewarding of parents for involvement in school improvement; parent of year awards
- § 37-3-75. Awards for exemplary performing public schools and school programs
- § 37-3-77. State funding of programs provided for in ยงยง 37-3-55 through 37-3-71; expenditure of local funds for specified programs; implementation of specified programs deemed discretionary
- § 37-3-79. Curriculum Coordinator of Music and Art Education
- § 37-3-81. School Safety Center
- § 37-3-82. Mississippi Community Oriented Policing Services in Schools grant program established; purpose; use of funds
- § 37-3-82.1. Schools unable to meet financial requirements for participation in MCOPS program authorized to develop alternative plans for student security
- § 37-3-83. School Safety Grant Program; implementation of "Erin's Law Awareness" policy addressing sexual abuse of children; pilot program utilizing evidence-based curriculum to provide children stress and anxiety management skills; biennial refresher training on mental health and suicide prevention for all school employees
- § 37-3-84. Confiscation of illegal firearms; reward
- § 37-3-85. After-school mentoring programs
- § 37-3-87. Mississippi Better Sight for Better Learning Program; face-to-face comprehensive eye examination for children entering first grade if screening indicates need; student vision screening program
- § 37-3-89. School discipline and classroom management courses; requirement; approval
- § 37-3-91. Regional behavioral institutes; discipline and classroom management strategies; participation; standardized Memorandum of Understanding between mental health facilities and school districts to include referral protocols and standardized behavioral health screening
- § 37-3-93. School Crisis Management Program; quick response teams; toll-free telephone service for reporting school violence; certified threat assessment officers and duties thereof
- § 37-3-95. Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) statewide coordinator; powers and duties
- § 37-3-97. Repealed
- § 37-3-99. Repealed
- § 37-3-101. Local school districts to adopt policy on student suicide prevention and provide in-service training on suicide prevention education for all school district employees
- § 37-3-103. In-service training on suicide prevention education for newly employed school district employees
- § 37-3-105. In-service training for all licensed grades K through 3 public school district teachers to include intensive, comprehensive, research-based reading methods
- § 37-3-107. Curriculum guidelines for implementation of school bus safety curriculum for grades K through 3
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