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MS Code § 37-13-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|In General|§ 37-13-9. Curriculum committee

 The state board of education is hereby authorized to appoint a curriculum committee, composed of professional and lay members, not to exceed seven in number, to make a continuous study of the curriculum of the public schools and to make recommendations to the state board of education from time to time as to changes which should be made in the curriculum in the grammar school grades and in the high school grades. The members of such committee as of July 1, 1954, shall continue to serve until the expiration of the terms for which they were appointed; thereafter the members of such committee shall be appointed and serve for a term of two years and until their successors are appointed. Each member of said committee shall receive a per diem of Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) for each day actually spent attending the meetings of the committee and, in addition, each member shall be reimbursed for actual travel expenses at the rate of Six cents ($.06) per mile for each mile traveled in attending the meetings of the committee. However, the total amount paid to any member of the committee for per diem shall not exceed the sum of One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00) in any one year. The per diem and travel expenses provided for herein shall be paid out of such appropriation as may be made for such purpose by the legislature.
MS Code § 37-13-10 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|In General|§ 37-13-10. Public elementary schools to provide instruction in cursive reading and writing; exceptions

 The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to require all public school districts to meet the following elementary education curriculum standard: The standard course of study shall include the requirement that the public schools provide instruction in cursive reading and writing, implemented across the curriculum, so that students create readable documents through legible cursive handwriting by the end of the fifth grade, and that students pass with proficiency a teacher-constructed test demonstrating the students competency in both reading and writing cursive. This requirement shall be applicable beginning with the 2018-2019 school year. The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to the Mississippi School for the Blind and the Mississippi School for the Deaf.
MS Code § 37-13-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|In General|§ 37-13-19. Local school districts may allow course credit for completion of National Guard basic training to certain students

 In addition to the curriculum otherwise required by law or the State Board of Education to be taught in the public schools of this state, the school board of a local school district may allow course credit to any high school student, who is a member of the National Guard and attends basic training camp during the summer between the end of the student's junior year and the start of the student's senior year of academic instruction.At the conclusion of the student's basic training, the commanding officer of the National Guard unit of which the student is a reserve member shall provide evidence of the student's completion of training to the local school district where the student is in attendance.Upon receipt of the evidence provided by the National Guard, the school district may award one (1) Carnegie unit of elective credit to the student.This elective credit may be applied along with the total number of Carnegie units required for the student to graduate.
MS Code § 37-13-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|In General|§ 37-13-21. Health education programs

 The State Board of Health and the various county health departments are hereby authorized and empowered to establish and provide for health education programs in the public school districts of this state and to employ county health educators for such purpose. In order to effectuate such programs the county superintendents of education of counties in which such programs have been established, with the approval of the county board of education, and the board of trustees of the municipal separate school districts are authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to cooperate and join with the said State Board of Health and the county health departments in such program. For such purposes the said county superintendents of education, with the approval of the county board of education, are hereby authorized and empowered to expend such funds as may be necessary from the common school funds of the county, and the board of trustees of municipal separate school districts are hereby authorized and empowered to expend such funds as may be necessary from the maintenance funds of such districts for the purpose of defraying the expenses of such cooperative health education programs. Those students whose parents or guardians shall make written application to the proper authorities on the ground that such program is inconsistent with the tenets and practices of the known religious organization with which they are affiliated shall not be required to participate in the program.   The State Board of Health and various county health departments shall have the power and authority to enter into such agreements and joint programs with the said county superintendents of education and boards of trustees of municipal separate school districts as may be necessary, proper and desirable in carrying out the purposes of this section, and in establishing and carrying on health education programs in the public school districts of this state, and the said county superintendents of education, with the approval and consent of the county board of education, and the board of trustees of municipal separate school districts shall have the power and authority to enter into such agreements and joint programs with each other and with the State Board of Health and county health departments as may be necessary for such purpose.
MS Code § 37-13-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|In General|§ 37-13-41. Reports by school superintendents as to type and amount of work performed in each grade

 All principals and/or superintendents of public schools in all school districts in Mississippi shall report to their county superintendent of education upon forms prepared and sent to the county superintendent of education by the director of the division of instruction, giving the type and amount of work done in each grade of their respective school, with other information that may be desired by the director. The county superintendents of education shall compile this information on forms sent out by the director. This shall be made in duplicate, one (1) copy to be sent to the director, and the other filed as other public records are filed in the county superintendents' offices. This report shall be made to the director by the county superintendents of education not later than the first of June each year.
MS Code § 37-13-58 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|In General|§ 37-13-58. Career education; duties of department of education; office of career education

  The state department of education is hereby designated as the state agency responsible for the administration and supervision of the career education concept as an educational innovation in the State of Mississippi. It is the intent of the legislature that all funds made available to the State of Mississippi, for the purpose of enhancing career education, be administered by the state department of education.   Pursuant to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, the state department of education is hereby authorized to establish an office of career education within the framework of the state department of education for the purpose of developing standards, procedures and criteria for the administration and supervision of a statewide program of career education in grades one (1) through twelve (12). The state department of education, through the office of career education, shall assume the further responsibility for promoting a statewide effort designed to prepare local school faculties and staffs to incorporate the career education concept into their local educational programs.
MS Code § 37-13-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|In General|§ 37-13-59. Career education; state coordinator; cooperation by state colleges and universities

 Pursuant to the provisions of Section 37-13-58, the state department of education is hereby authorized to provide for the services of a state coordinator of career education and such other professional and nonprofessional staff as may be needed and as funds available to the department will permit. It shall be the responsibility of the state coordinator of career education to coordinate efforts of the personnel of the state department of education, the state's colleges and universities, local public schools and other appropriate agencies to provide the services embraced by Sections 37-13-58 through 37-13-60. The state department of education and the state coordinator of career education will be responsible for the development of teacher education courses, both at the graduate and undergraduate levels, designed to familiarize teachers and prospective teachers with the career education concept and its application to their roles as teachers and prospective teachers. The state colleges and universities will consult and cooperate with the state department of education and state coordinator of career education in the development of these courses and in the responsibilities under Sections 37-13-58 through 37-13-60.
MS Code § 37-13-60 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|In General|§ 37-13-60. Career education; implementation of program by school districts; funding

 In addition to all other authority, duties and powers the governing boards of the several school districts of this state may now have, each is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt plans for the implementation of a career education program as the same best suits the needs thereof and thereby to orient its system to the field of work. In so doing, the governing board shall operate within its regular budget, without the employment of additional personnel and out of any available funds, federal, state, local or private.   Nothing in Sections 37-13-58 through 37-13-60 shall be so construed as to prohibit the acceptance of contributions from the private business sector or cooperation therewith, including but not limited to seminars, tours, lectures and in-service training.   There will be cooperation between the state department of education, the state coordinator of career education and the governing boards of the several school districts in implementing this program as it best suits the needs of the individual districts.   Provided, further, the commission on school accreditation shall encourage the development of plans of career education and the implementation thereof, and shall be authorized to accredit same.
MS Code § 37-13-60.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|In General|§ 37-13-60.1. Career information delivery system

  The Mississippi State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, hereinafter "SOICC," is hereby designated as the entity responsible for the operation and management of an occupational information system to support career development in elementary schools, middle/junior high schools, high schools, postsecondary institutions and human service agencies pursuant to the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984, Public Law 98-524, Section 422(b).   SOICC shall develop and incorporate Mississippi-specific occupational and educational information to implement a career information delivery system for this state.   SOICC shall train local staff in the use and operation of the career information delivery system in the career development process.   SOICC shall establish the criteria pursuant to which appropriated funds will be distributed to local users of the career information delivery system.   On or before January 1 of each year, SOICC shall report to the Senate Education Committee and the House Education Committee of the Mississippi Legislature its assessment of the effectiveness and usefulness of the career information delivery system in the advancement of career development for state public school students.   SOICC is authorized to impose reasonable fees on users of the career information delivery system in order to defray a portion of the expense incurred in the operation and management of the career information delivery system.
MS Code § 37-13-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|School Year and Attendance|§ 37-13-61. Date of opening and closing of school term; length of school term

 The local school board shall have the power and authority to fix the date for the opening and closing of the school term, subject to the minimum number of days which schools must be in session during a scholastic year, as prescribed under Section 37-13-63. However, local school boards are authorized to keep school in session in excess of the minimum number of days prescribed in Section 37-13-63.
MS Code § 37-13-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|School Year and Attendance|§ 37-13-63. Minimum length of school term

  Except as otherwise provided, all public schools in the state shall be kept in session for at least one hundred eighty (180) days in each scholastic year.   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 man-made, technological or natural disaster or extreme weather emergency in which the Governor has declared a disaster or state of 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, the school board may notify the State Department of Education of the disaster or weather emergency and submit a plan for altering the school term. If the State Board of Education finds the disaster or extreme weather emergency 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 or state of emergency declaration, it may permit that school board to operate the schools in its district for less than one hundred eighty (180) days; however, in no instance of a declared disaster or state of emergency under the provisions of this subsection shall a school board receive payment from the State Department of Education for per pupil expenditure for pupils in average daily attendance in excess of ten (10) days.
MS Code § 37-13-64 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|School Year and Attendance|§ 37-13-64. Exemption from minimum school term length requirement for certain schools under certain circumstances

  Beginning with the 2010-2011 school term, any school district required to close the operation of its schools by decision of the superintendent, under the authority provided by the local school board, due to extreme weather conditions, in the best interests of the health and safety of the students, administration and staff of the school district, shall be exempt from the requirement that schools be kept in session a minimum of one hundred eighty (180) days.Any school district that closes its schools for reasons authorized under this section shall receive payment from the State Department of Education for per pupil expenditure for pupils in average daily attendance not to exceed ten (10) days.   In the event weather conditions are cause for the closure of operations of schools in any local school district in any instance in which a state of emergency has not been declared pursuant to Section 37-151-7(3)(c), the State Board of Education may consider, on a case-by-case basis, requests submitted by local school districts to alter the school calendar consistent with the provision of that section.
MS Code § 37-13-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|School Year and Attendance|§ 37-13-65. Closing of schools for holidays and emergencies

 Upon application from the school board, the superintendent of schools may close any school because of an epidemic prevailing in the school district or because of the death, resignation, sickness or dismissal of a teacher or teachers or because of any other emergency necessitating the closing of the school. However, all such schools so closed shall operate for the required full time after being reopened during the scholastic year, unless the school board of the local school district submits a plan to alter the school term that is approved by the State Board of Education under the authority of Section 37-13-63(2).
MS Code § 37-13-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|School Year and Attendance|§ 37-13-67. Length of school day

 The number of hours of actual teaching which shall constitute a school day shall be determined and fixed by the board of trustees of the school district at not less than five and one-half (5-1/2) hours.
MS Code § 37-13-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|School Year and Attendance|§ 37-13-69. Observance of legal holidays

 All public schools of this state may observe such legal holidays as may be designated by the local school board, and no sessions of school shall be held on holidays so designated and observed. However, all schools shall operate for the full minimum term required by law exclusive of the holidays authorized by this section. The holidays thus observed shall not be deducted from the reports of the superintendents, principals and teachers, and such superintendents, principals and teachers shall be allowed pay for full time as though they had taught on those holidays. However, such holidays shall not be counted or included in any way in determining the average daily attendance of the school.
MS Code § 37-13-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Mississippi Compulsory School Attendance Law|§ 37-13-81. Office of Compulsory School Attendance Enforcement; creation

 There is created the Office of Compulsory School Attendance Enforcement within the Office of Dropout Prevention of the State Department of Education. The office shall be responsible for the administration of a statewide system of enforcement of the Mississippi Compulsory School Attendance Law (Section 37-13-91) and for the supervision of school attendance officers throughout the state.
MS Code § 37-13-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Mississippi Compulsory School Attendance Law|§ 37-13-83. Director; qualifications; responsibilities

 The State Superintendent of Public Education shall appoint a director for the Office of Compulsory School Attendance Enforcement, who shall meet all qualifications established for school attendance officer supervisors and any additional qualifications that may be established by the State Superintendent of Public Education or State Personnel Board. The director shall be responsible for the proper administration of the Office of Compulsory School Attendance Enforcement in conformity with the Mississippi Compulsory School Attendance Law and any other regulations or policies that may be adopted by the State Board of Education. The director shall report directly to the Director of the Office of Dropout Prevention.
MS Code § 37-13-87 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Mississippi Compulsory School Attendance Law|§ 37-13-87. District office supervisors; powers and duties; qualifications; salaries

  The Director of the Office of Compulsory School Attendance Enforcement shall employ three (3) school attendance officer supervisors, each to maintain an office within a different Supreme Court district. Each supervisor shall be responsible for the enforcement of the Mississippi Compulsory School Attendance Law within his district and shall exercise direct supervision over the school attendance officers in the district. The supervisors, who shall report to the director of the office, shall assist the school attendance officers in the performance of their duties as established by law or otherwise.   No person having less than eight (8) years combined actual experience as a school attendance officer, school teacher, school administrator, law enforcement officer possessing a college degree with a major in a behavioral science or a related field, and/or social worker in the state shall be employed as a school attendance officer supervisor. Further, a school attendance officer supervisor shall possess a college degree with a major in a behavioral science or a related field or shall have actual experience as a school teacher, school administrator, law enforcement officer possessing such degree or social worker; however, these requirements shall not apply to persons employed as school attendance officers before January 1, 1987. School attendance officers shall meet any additional qualifications established by the State Personnel Board for school attendance officers or school attendance officer supervisors. The school attendance officer supervisors shall receive an annual salary to be set by the State Superintendent of Public Education, subject to the approval of the State Personnel Board.
MS Code § 37-13-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Mississippi Compulsory School Attendance Law|§ 37-13-107. Training and education course for school attendance officers; effect of failure to receive certificate

  Every school attendance officer shall be required annually to attend and complete a comprehensive course of training and education which is provided or approved by the Office of Compulsory School Attendance Enforcement of the State Department of Education. Attendance shall be required beginning with the first training seminar conducted after the school attendance officer is employed as a school attendance officer.   The Office of Compulsory School Attendance Enforcement shall provide or approve a course of training and education for school attendance officers of the state. The course shall consist of at least twelve (12) hours of training per year. The content of the course of training and when and where it is to be conducted shall be approved by the office. A certificate of completion shall be furnished by the State Department of Education to those school attendance officers who complete the course. Each certificate shall be made a permanent record of the school attendance officer supervisor's office where the school attendance officer is employed.   Upon the failure of any person employed as a school attendance officer to receive the certificate of completion from the State Department of Education within the first year of his employment, the person shall not be allowed to carry out any of the duties of a school attendance officer and shall not be entitled to compensation for the period of time during which the certificate has not been obtained.