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2020 Mississippi Code
Title 37 - Education
Chapter 28 - Mississippi Charter Schools Act of 2013
- § 37-28-1. Short title
- § 37-28-3. Legislative findings and declarations
- § 37-28-5. Definitions
- § 37-28-7. Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board created; jurisdiction; mission; composition
- § 37-28-9. Powers and duties of Authorizer Board; immunity from civil liability
- § 37-28-11. Funding for the Authorizer Board
- § 37-28-13. Technical information and assistance from Department of Education; publication of laws and regulations applicable to charter schools
- § 37-28-15. Authorizer to publicize request for proposals for charter school applications; request for proposals to prescribe mandatory elements of charter applications
- § 37-28-17. Purposes of charter application; approved charter application not to serve as charter contract
- § 37-28-19. Standards for authorizing charter school; review process
- § 37-28-21. Initial charter term; charter contract
- § 37-28-23. Charter school enrollment; lottery for selection of students if capacity is insufficient to enroll all students
- § 37-28-25. Charter school credits to be accepted by another public school upon transfer of student from charter school to public school
- § 37-28-27. School districts required to provide information about charter schools as enrollment option
- § 37-28-29. Charter contract to include performance framework; performance standards used to guide authorizer's charter school evaluations; annual performance targets
- § 37-28-31. Annual review of charter school performance and legal compliance; performance report; charter schools to be given opportunity to remedy problems
- § 37-28-33. Renewal, nonrenewal or revocation of charter
- § 37-28-35. Closure of charter; charter school closure protocol; disposition of unspent funds and assets
- § 37-28-37. Annual report on status of charter schools to governor and legislature
- § 37-28-39. Charter school and certain service providers to be nonprofit education organization; charter school to function as local educational agency
- § 37-28-41. Charter school powers
- § 37-28-43. Prohibition against discrimination; prohibition against charging tuition; transportation plan; virtual courses
- § 37-28-45. Applicability of statutes, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, etc. that noncharter public schools are subject to; relation to other laws
- § 37-28-47. Qualifications of charter school employees; applicability of Education Employment Procedures Law
- § 37-28-49. Criminal history record checks and fingerprinting requirements; termination of charter school employee for certain acts
- § 37-28-51. Charter schools eligible to participate in state- or district-sponsored athletic and academic interscholastic activities
- § 37-28-53. Charter schools required to certify enrollment, average daily attendance and certain additional information on annual basis
- § 37-28-55. Charter school funding; adequate education program payments; local funding; federal and state categorical aid program monies; state transportation funding
- § 37-28-57. Annual financial audit
- § 37-28-59. Monies remaining in charter school's accounts at end of budget year to be used during subsequent budget years; authorization to accept gifts, grants, etc.; disclosure of funds from private and foreign sources
- § 37-28-61. Right of first refusal to purchase vacant public school facilities; public entities authorized to provide space to charters in their facilities under preexisting zoning and land use designations
- § 37-28-63. Repealed
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