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MS Code § 37-12-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 12 - Mississippi Student Religious Liberties Act of 2013|§ 37-12-13. No limitation on authority of public schools to maintain order, discipline and safety or to adopt and enforce student speech policies

 This chapter shall not be construed to limit the authority of any public school to do any of the following:   Maintain order and discipline on the campus of the public school in a content and viewpoint neutral manner.   Protect the safety of students, employees and visitors of the public school.   Adopt and enforce policies and procedures regarding student speech at school provided that the policies and procedures do not violate the rights of students as guaranteed by the United States and Mississippi constitutions and laws.
MS Code § 37-12-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 12 - Mississippi Student Religious Liberties Act of 2013|§ 37-12-15. Applicability of chapter

 This chapter applies beginning with the 2013-2014 school year.
MS Code § 37-14-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 14 - Mary Kirkpatrick Haskell-Mary Sprayberry Public School Nurse Act of 2007|§ 37-14-1. Short title

 This chapter shall be known as the Mary Kirkpatrick Haskell-Mary Sprayberry Public School Nurse Act of 2007.
MS Code § 37-14-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 14 - Mary Kirkpatrick Haskell-Mary Sprayberry Public School Nurse Act of 2007|§ 37-14-5. Waiver or grant for Medicaid coverage of services of public school nurses

 The Division of Medicaid shall cooperate with the State Department of Education to develop and seek approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for a waiver or grant to cover the services of public school nurses, as allowed by federal law. The division is also authorized to explore other options for administering and providing services under this program, including, but not limited to, matching any available federal funds. The Department of Education shall place particular emphasis on reducing unnecessary paperwork by public school nurses.
MS Code § 37-14-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 14 - Mary Kirkpatrick Haskell-Mary Sprayberry Public School Nurse Act of 2007|§ 37-14-7. Mary Kirkpatrick Haskell-Mary Sprayberry Public School Nurse Program Fund established; expenditure of funds limited to specific purposes

  There is established in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the Mary Kirkpatrick Haskell-Mary Sprayberry Public School Nurse Program Fund, which shall be comprised of the funds specified in subsection (2) of this section and any other funds that are authorized or required to be deposited into the special fund.   The Legislature shall annually appropriate the funds in the special fund to the Office of Healthy Schools of the State Department of Education, which shall expend the funds solely for the purposes specified in Section 37-14-3. None of the funds in the special fund may be transferred to any other fund or appropriated or expended for any other purpose.   All income from the investment of the funds in the special fund shall be credited to the account of the special fund. Any funds in the special fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund.
MS Code § 37-15-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-1. Maintenance of permanent records and cumulative folders for pupils; requirement of certified birth certificate or other evidence of age

 The State Board of Education shall prepare and provide necessary forms for keeping permanent records and cumulative folders for each pupil in the public schools, including charter schools, of the state. In the permanent record and cumulative folders, the teachers and principals shall keep information concerning the pupil's date of birth, as verified by the documentation authorized in this section, record of attendance, grades and withdrawal from the school, including the date of any expulsion from the school and a description of the student's act or behavior resulting in the expulsion. The records also shall contain information pertaining to immunization and such other information as the State Board of Education may prescribe. The cumulative folder, in addition to that information maintained in the permanent records, also shall contain such other information as the State Board of Education shall prescribe. It shall be the responsibility of the person in charge of each school to enforce the requirement for evidence of the age of each pupil before enrollment. If the first prescribed evidence is not available, the next evidence obtainable in the order set forth below shall be accepted:   A certified birth certificate;   A duly attested transcript of a certificate of baptism showing the date of birth and place of baptism of the child, accompanied by an affidavit sworn to by a parent, grandparent or custodian;   An insurance policy on the child's life which has been in force for at least two (2) years;   A bona fide contemporary Bible record of the child's birth accompanied by an affidavit sworn to by the parent, grandparent or custodian;   A passport or certificate of arrival in the United States showing the age of the child;   A transcript of record of age shown in the child's school record of at least four (4) years prior to application, stating date of birth; or   If none of these evidences can be produced, an affidavit of age sworn to by a parent, grandparent or custodian. Any child enrolling in kindergarten or Grade 1 shall present the required evidence of age upon enrollment. Any child in Grades 2 through 12 not in compliance at the end of sixty (60) days from enrollment shall be suspended until in compliance.
MS Code § 37-15-2 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-2. Storage of permanent records

 The permanent record provided for in Section 37-15-1 shall be kept, while it is active, in the attendance center office in a fire resistant container.   The permanent record shall be considered active: (a) if the student is enrolled in the school; or (b) if he has withdrawn or has been expelled and the students of the class of which he was a member shall not have reached the time of graduation.   At the point of the student's graduation or at the time when the student would normally have graduated had he not withdrawn or been expelled from school, the student's permanent record shall become a part of the permanent binder in the central fire resistant depository or stored digitally as designated and provided by the school board of the school district, or, as an alternative method, the records may be maintained in fire resistant storage at the school last attended by the student. The permanent binding and preservation of the inactive records shall be the duty of the superintendent of the school district who shall maintain a central depository of the records.
MS Code § 37-15-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-3. Storage of cumulative folders; access to records; disposition of records upon transfer of student between schools; destruction of records

 Such cumulative folders as are provided for in Section 37-15-1 shall be kept in the school wherein the pupils are in attendance. Both the permanent records and the cumulative folders shall be available to school officials, including teachers within the school district who have been determined by the school district to have legitimate educational interests. In no case, however, shall such records be available to the general public. Transcripts of courses and grades may be furnished when requested by the parent or guardian or eligible pupil as prescribed in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 20 USCS Section 1232g. Such records shall be kept for each pupil throughout his entire public school enrollment period. In the event a pupil transfers to a public school, including a charter school, then the cumulative folder shall be furnished to the head of the school to which the pupil transfers; if a pupil transfers to a private school, then a copy of the cumulative folder shall be furnished to the head of the school to which the pupil transfers. The permanent record shall be kept permanently by the school district from which the pupil transferred.   At no time may a permanent record of a student be destroyed, but cumulative folders may be destroyed by order of the school board of the school district in not less than five (5) years after the permanent record of the pupil has become inactive and has been transferred to the central depository of the district. Provided, however, that where a school district makes complete copies of inactive permanent records on photographic film, microfilm, or any other acceptable form of medium for storage which may be reproduced as needed, such permanent records may be destroyed after the photographic film or microfilm copy has been stored in the central depository of the district.
MS Code § 37-15-4 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-4. Maintenance of records relating to district-wide reports

 The school board of every school district, as created and empowered by law, shall keep and preserve permanently a copy of all district-wide reports required by the State Board of Education to be filed on an annual basis.   Copies of those district-wide reports required by the State Board of Education on less than an annual basis may be destroyed after five (5) years upon approval of the school board of the school district.   All supporting documents necessary to compile such district-wide reports, except as delineated in Section 37-15-8 may be destroyed after three (3) years following the academic year for which the report was made upon approval of the school board of the school district.
MS Code § 37-15-6 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-6. Central reporting system for information concerning expulsions from public schools; access to information

 For the purpose of providing notice to public and private school officials, both within and outside the boundaries of the state, of the expulsion of any public school student, the State Department of Education may develop a central reporting system for maintaining information concerning each expulsion from a public school. In establishing and maintaining the reporting system, the department may require each school district and charter school to report, within a certain period of time after an expulsion, as established by the department, information such as the following:   The name of the student expelled;   The date the student was expelled;   The age of the student at the time of the expulsion;   The school from which the student was expelled;   The reason for the expulsion, including a detailed description of the student's act or acts;   The duration of the period of expulsion, if not indefinite; and   Any other information that the department deems necessary for school officials in a public or private school, where a student is seeking enrollment, to determine whether or not a student should be denied enrollment based upon a previous expulsion.   Any information maintained by the department under the authority of this section shall be strictly confidential. The information shall be available to school officials at a public or private school only upon their request and only when a student seeks enrollment or admission to that school. In no case shall the information be available to the general public.
MS Code § 37-15-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-7. Maintenance of continuing census

 In addition to the cumulative records provided for in Section 37-15-1, there shall be kept a continuing census of all children below the age of nineteen within each school district. Such record shall be kept as a part of the permanent office records of the superintendent of the district.
MS Code § 37-15-8 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-8. Schedule for disposal of records

 The superintendent of the school district shall have the authority, with the approval of the school board of the school district spread upon its minutes, to dispose of the following records:   After five (5) years:    Bank statements;   Cancelled warrants and pay certificates;   School board paid bills;   Bids received, either accepted or rejected, for supplies, materials, equipment and construction;   Depository receipt warrants;   School board claims dockets, where claims are recorded on the minutes of the board;   Original of school board's orders after such orders have been recorded in the minute book;   Cancelled bonds and coupons;   Tax collector's reports of tax collection to superintendent of schools;   Transportation records.  Notwithstanding any of the provisions of Sections 37-15-1 through 37-15-4, 37-15-8 and 37-15-10 to the contrary, no records which are in the process of being audited by the State Department of Audit, or which are the basis of litigation, shall be destroyed until at least twelve (12) months after final completion of said audits and litigation.     After three (3) years:   Teacher contracts, computed from the expiration date thereof;   Bus purchase documents;   Teachers' registers, principals' reports and other evidence necessary to prepare the reports to the State Board of Education.   After period to be set by the State Board of Education such other documents of a temporary or transitory nature as the State Board of Education by regulation shall designate.
MS Code § 37-15-10 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-10. Administration of provisions relating to records

 The state board of education shall administer Sections 37-15-1 through 37-15-4, 37-15-8 and this section and issue such additional standards and regulations as might be necessary in carrying out this duty.
MS Code § 37-15-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-11. Requirement that parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian accompany child applying for enrollment

 Whenever any minor child seeks or applies to enroll or gain entrance to any public school in this state, and the child is not accompanied by an adult or is accompanied by an adult who is not the child's parent, guardian, if a legal guardian has been appointed for the child, or legal custodian, the school official or officials or teacher to whom the child applies or reports for enrollment or admission may delay consideration of the enrollment or enlistment of the minor child and require the child's parent, legal guardian or legal custodian to accompany the child and apply for enrollment and admission into the school for and on behalf of the minor child.
MS Code § 37-15-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-13. Assignment of child enrolling in public schools to particular school or attendance center generally

 When any child qualified under the requirements of Section 37-15-9 shall apply or present himself for enrollment in or admission to the public schools of any school district of this state, the school board of such school district shall have the power and authority to designate the particular school or attendance center of the district in which such child shall be enrolled and which he shall attend; no enrollment of a child in a school shall be final or permanent until such designation shall be made by said school board. No child shall be entitled to attend any school or attendance center except that to which he has been assigned by the school board; however, the principal of a school or superintendent of the district may, in proper cases, permit a child to attend a school temporarily until a permanent assignment is made by the school board.
MS Code § 37-15-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-15. Factors to be considered in making assignments

 In making assignments of children to schools or attendance centers, the school board shall take into consideration the educational needs and welfare of the child involved, the welfare and best interest of all the pupils attending the school or schools involved, the availability of school facilities, sanitary conditions and facilities at the school or schools involved, health and moral factors at the school or schools, and in the community involved, and all other factors which the school board may consider pertinent, relevant or material in their effect on the welfare and best interest of the school district and the particular school or schools involved. All such assignments shall be on an individual basis as to the particular child involved and, in making such assignment, the school board shall not be limited or circumscribed by the boundaries of any attendance areas which may have been established by such board.
MS Code § 37-15-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-17. Review or reconsideration by school board of assignment of child

 If the parent, guardian or other person having custody of any child shall feel aggrieved by the assignment of such child to a school or attendance center by the school board, then such parent, guardian or other person may, at any time within thirty (30) days after such assignment, make application in writing to the school board for a review or reconsideration of such assignment. Upon receiving any such application, the school board shall set a time and place for the hearing thereof which time shall be not more than fifteen (15) days after the regular meeting of said board next succeeding the date of the filing of said application. At the time and place so fixed, the person filing such application shall have the right to appear and present evidence in support of said application. After hearing said evidence, the school board shall determine whether said application is well taken and supported by the evidence and shall enter an order either affirming its previous action or modifying or changing same as said school board shall find proper.
MS Code § 37-15-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-21. Judicial review of assignment of child

 If any parent, guardian or other person having custody of any child affected by the assignment of such child to a school or attendance center by the school board shall feel aggrieved at the order of the school board provided for in Section 37-15-17, such person may, at any time within thirty (30) days from the date of such order, appeal therefrom by filing a petition for appeal in the circuit court of the county in which the school district involved is located. Upon the filing of such petition for an appeal, process shall be issued for and served upon the president of the school board of the school district involved. Upon being served with process, it shall be the duty of the school board to transmit promptly to the court a certified copy of the entire record of the proceedings as shown by the file of the school board. From the judgment of the circuit court, an appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court in the same manner as other appeals are taken from other judgments of such court.
MS Code § 37-15-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-29. Minor child to attend school in district of residence; exceptions

  Except as provided in subsections (2), (3), (4) and (5) of this section, no minor child may enroll in or attend any school except in the school district of his residence, unless such child be lawfully transferred from the school district of his residence to a school in another school district in accord with the statutes of this state now in effect or which may be hereafter enacted.   Those children whose parent(s) or legal guardian(s) are instructional personnel or certificated employees of a school district may at such employee's discretion enroll and attend the school or schools of their parent's or legal guardian's employment regardless of the residence of the child.   No child shall be required to be transported in excess of thirty (30) miles on a school bus from his or her home to school, or in excess of thirty (30) miles from school to his or her home, if there is another school in an adjacent school district located on a shorter school bus transportation route by the nearest traveled road. Those children residing in such geographical situations may, at the discretion of their parent(s) or legal guardian(s), enroll and attend the nearer school, regardless of the residence of the child. In the event the parent or legal guardian of such child and the school board are unable to agree on the school bus mileage required to transport the child from his or her home to school, an appeal shall lie to the State Board of Education, or its designee, whose decision shall be final. The school districts involved in the appeal shall provide the Mississippi Department of Education with any school bus route information requested, including riding the buses as necessary, in order to measure the bus routes in question, as needed by the State Board of Education in considering the appeal.   Those children lawfully transferred from the school district of his residence to a school in another school district prior to July 1, 1992, may, at the discretion of their parent(s) or legal guardian(s), continue to enroll and attend school in the transferee school district. Provided further, that the brother(s) and sister(s) of said children lawfully transferred prior to July 1, 1992, may also, at the discretion of their parent(s) or legal guardian(s), enroll and attend school in the transferee school district.   Those children whose parent(s) or legal guardian(s) are active members of the United States Armed Forces or civilian military personnel and reside on a military base, may, at the discretion of their parent(s) or legal guardian(s), enroll and attend the school district of their parent's or legal guardian's choosing, regardless of the residence of the child, provided the school district where the student resides or in an adjacent school district and the parent's or guardian's choice of school district does not violate the provision of subsection (3) of this section prohibiting the transportation of students in excess of thirty (30) miles.