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MS Code § 37-23-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|State-Supported College and University Education Programs for Special Children|§ 37-23-31. Establishment of education program for deaf, aphasic and emotionally disturbed children; rights of parents or guardians regarding placement or education programs

  When five (5) or more children under twenty-one (21) years of age who because of deafness, aphasia, emotional disturbance and/or other low-incidence conditions, are unable to have their educational needs met in a regular public school program, and a special education program in their particular areas of exceptionality is not available in their respective local public school districts, a state-supported university or college shall be authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to provide a program of education, instruction and training to such children, provided that such program shall operate under rules, regulations, policies and standards adopted by the State Department of Education as provided for in Section 37-23-33. The opinion of a parent or guardian in regard to the provision of an appropriate special education program in or by their respective local public school district shall be considered before a placement decision is finalized. Parents shall have any and all rights as provided in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, including, but not limited to, the right to equal participation in their child's Individualized Education Program (IEP), the right to require review of their child's IEP, and the right to appeal an IEP Committee decision immediately. The parent or guardian or local educational agency shall have the right to audio record the proceedings of individualized education program team meetings. The parent or guardian or local educational agency shall notify the members of the individualized education program team of his, her, or its intent to audio record a meeting at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the meeting.   Any state-supported university or college conducting a full-time medical teaching program acceptable to the State Board of Education may, at its discretion, enter into such contracts or agreements with any private school or nonprofit corporation-supported institution, the Mississippi School for the Deaf, or any state-supported institution, providing the special education contemplated by this section for such services, provided the private school or institution offering such services shall have conducted a program of such services at standards acceptable to the State Department of Education for a period of at least one (1) year prior to the date at which the university or college proposes to enter into an agreement or contract for special educational services as described above.
MS Code § 37-23-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|State-Supported College and University Education Programs for Special Children|§ 37-23-33. Powers and duties of board and department of education

 Such program of education, instruction and training as is provided for in Section 37-23-31 shall be furnished in such manner as shall be provided by rules and regulations adopted by the State Board of Education, which for such purposes shall have the full power to adopt such rules, regulations, policies and standards as it may deem necessary to carry out the purpose of Sections 37-23-31 through 37-23-35, including the establishment of qualifications of any teachers employed under the provisions thereof. It is expressly provided, however, that no program of education, instruction and training shall be furnished except in a university or college supported by the State of Mississippi and only in cases where such university or college shall consent thereto and shall provide any classroom space, furniture and facilities which may be deemed necessary in carrying out the provisions of those sections.   The State Department of Education shall require that the program of education, instruction and training be designed to provide individualized appropriate special education and related services that enable a child to reach his or her appropriate and uniquely designed goals for success.
MS Code § 37-23-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|State-Supported College and University Education Programs for Special Children|§ 37-23-35. Payment for education of students attending program

 When any children who are residents of the State of Mississippi and qualify under the provisions of Section 37-23-31, shall be provided a program of education, instruction and training within a school under the provisions of said section, the State Department of Education shall allocate one (1) teacher unit for each approved class. The allocation of funds for each teacher unit shall be based on the teacher's certification and shall be in accordance with Sections 37-19-1 through 37-19-41 of the code. The university or college shall be eligible for state and federal funds for such programs on the same basis as local school districts. The university or college shall be responsible for providing for the additional costs of the program.
MS Code § 37-23-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Financial Assistance to Exceptional Children Attending Private or Parochial Schools|§ 37-23-61. "Child" defined

 As used in Sections 37-23-61 through 37-23-75, the word "child" shall mean any child who cannot pursue all regular classwork due to reasons of defective hearing, vision, speech, intellectual disability, or other mental or physical conditions as determined by competent medical authorities and psychologists. Those medical authorities and psychologists shall be approved by the State Department of Education.
MS Code § 37-23-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Financial Assistance to Exceptional Children Attending Private or Parochial Schools|§ 37-23-63. Eligibility to receive state and federal financial assistance

 Every child who is a resident citizen of the State of Mississippi under twenty-one (21) years of age, who cannot pursue all regular class work due to reasons of defective hearing, vision, speech, intellectual disability or other mental or physical conditions as determined by competent medical authorities and psychologists, who has not finished or graduated from high school, and who is in attendance in a private school, parochial school or speech, hearing and/or language clinic that is accredited by a state or regional accrediting agency or approved/licensed by the State Department of Education, shall be eligible and entitled to receive state financial assistance in the amount set forth in Section 37-23-69. Exceptional children as defined in Section 37-23-3(1) and who are certified by the designated state authority as requiring inpatient care in a private intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded or psychiatric residential treatment facility, with Medicaid reimbursement, shall be eligible and entitled to receive state and federal financial assistance under the provisions of Section 37-23-69, as allowable and available, if an approved private school is operated as an integral part of the facility that provides twenty-four (24) hours a day monitoring, treatment and education.
MS Code § 37-23-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Financial Assistance to Exceptional Children Attending Private or Parochial Schools|§ 37-23-65. General powers and duties of department of education

 The State Department of Education is authorized and directed to promulgate rules and regulations for the payment of such financial assistance and the administration of Sections 37-23-61 through 37-23-75 generally.   The State Department of Education shall have the authority to promulgate and enforce reasonable rules and regulations establishing standards for administration of the program contemplated by Sections 37-23-61 through 37-23-75, consistent with the maintenance of high quality programs for the benefit of the exceptional children served.   The State Department of Education shall require that the programs for which children are eligible for financial assistance under Sections 37-23-61 through 37-23-75 be designed to provide individualized appropriate special education and related services that enable a child to reach his or her appropriate and uniquely designed goals for success.
MS Code § 37-23-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Financial Assistance to Exceptional Children Attending Private or Parochial Schools|§ 37-23-67. Receipt and administration of funds

 The State Department of Education shall have the power to receive and administer all funds for or hereafter appropriated to, provided for, or otherwise accruing to, the State Department of Education for the purpose of providing financial assistance to students attending private schools, parochial schools or speech, hearing and/or language clinics that are accredited by a state or regional accrediting agency or approved/licensed by the State Department of Education, for the purpose of defraying the cost of the administration of Sections 37-23-61 through 37-23-75, and for any and all purposes necessary or proper for the administration of the provisions of said sections.
MS Code § 37-23-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Financial Assistance to Exceptional Children Attending Private or Parochial Schools|§ 37-23-71. Commitments for payment of financial assistance

 Upon approving the application for financial assistance, the state department of education shall issue its commitment in writing to the parent or guardian of, or person standing in loco parentis to the applicant, or to the public school district, which said commitment shall be for a specified amount for each day. Payments made under such commitment shall be made by the department, in accordance with the terms of the commitment, and each commitment shall be conditioned upon the applicant's attendance in accordance with his application and the provisions of Sections 37-23-61 through 37-23-75.
MS Code § 37-23-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Financial Assistance to Exceptional Children Attending Private or Parochial Schools|§ 37-23-73. Hearings on denials of financial assistance; appeals

 In the event of disapproval by the state department of education of an application for financial assistance payable from department funds, the department shall give notice to the applicant, through the parent or guardian of, or person standing in loco parentis to, the applicant, or to the public school district, by certified mail. Any applicant, through the parent or guardian of, or the person standing in loco parentis to, the applicant, or to the public school district, may, within ten (10) days after receipt of such notice, apply to the state board of education for a hearing, and shall be given a prompt and fair hearing on the question of entitlement to such financial assistance. The board shall render prompt decision upon such hearing. If the board shall affirm the previous action of disapproval of the application, notice shall be given to the applicant, through the parent or guardian of, or the person standing in loco parentis to, the applicant, or to the public school district, by certified mail. Any applicant aggrieved by the action of the board may, through the parent or guardian of, or the person standing in loco parentis to, the applicant or to the public school district within ten (10) days after receipt of such notice, file a petition in the chancery court of the county in which applicant resides for a hearing in the matter on all questions of fact and of law. The petition shall be served upon the state superintendent of public education. Within thirty (30) days after service of the petition, the board shall prepare and deposit a certified transcript of the record in the case in the office of the clerk of the court, which record shall include a copy of the application and any official findings, orders and rulings of the board in the case. The state board of education shall have thirty (30) days after the service of the petition within which to appear and file exceptions, answers or other pleadings. Additional time for preparation of the certified transcript of the record and for appearing and filing exceptions, answers or other pleadings may be granted to the board by order of the court. The court, after considering the law, the pleadings and such evidence as may be adduced in the case, may modify, affirm or reverse the findings of the board and make, issue and enter its judgment accordingly. Appeal from any such judgment shall be subject to the procedures applicable to appeals in ordinary civil actions.
MS Code § 37-23-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Financial Assistance to Exceptional Children Attending Private or Parochial Schools|§ 37-23-75. Offenses and penalties

 It shall be unlawful for any person to obtain, seek to obtain, expend, or seek to expend, any financial assistance funds for any purpose other than in payment of or in reimbursement for the tuition costs for the attendance of his child or ward at a private school, parochial school or speech, hearing and/or language clinic. A violation of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00), by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months in jail, or both.
MS Code § 37-23-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Exceptional Children Under State Guardianship|§ 37-23-77. Education of exceptional children under guardianship of Department of Human Services

 If a child, as defined in Sections 37-23-61 and 37-23-63, is under the legal guardianship of the State Department of Human Services, or any other state agency, and for whom no foster parents are available and no state-funded institution placement is available, funds available under Section 37-23-1 et seq. may be used to provide for the education of the child in an institution approved by the Department of Human Services and the State Department of Education. However, if the educational services needed by the child are available in a state funded institution, these funds shall not be used to pay for educational services at that institution. At any such time a child is taken out of a school setting and placed under the custody of the Department of Human Services, the department shall immediately notify the State Department of Education and apply for funds for the child's educational services under Section 37-23-1 et seq. and the State Department of Education shall respond to the application within ten (10) working days. The special education and related services provided for this child shall be provided in compliance with State Department of Education regulations. The State Department of Education shall promulgate such regulations as are necessary to implement this section.   The State Department of Education shall require that the special education and related services provided for the children under this section be designed to provide individualized appropriate special education and related services that enable a child to reach his or her appropriate and uniquely designed goals for success.
MS Code § 37-23-91 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Development Center for Retarded and Handicapped Children|§ 37-23-91. Authorization for establishment

 The board of education in any Class 1 county of the state having a total population of more than one hundred thousand (100,000) according to the 1960 census and having a total assessed valuation in excess of Sixty Million Dollars ($60,000,000.00), bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and in which there is a federal military base, under the methods set out in Sections 37-23-91 through 37-23-111, may establish a child development center for children in the county who have an intellectual or physical disability or are otherwise unable to attend public school, including, but not limited to, any child of educable or trainable mind under twenty-one (21) years of age for whose particular educational needs institutional care and training are not available in such county, or who cannot pursue regular classwork due to reason or reasons of defective hearing, vision, speech, intellectual disability or physical conditions, as determined by competent medical authorities and psychologists who are approved by the State Board of Education. This specifically includes, but shall not be limited to, provision for the deaf and blind of an age under six (6) years, where early training is in accordance with the most advanced and best approved scientific methods of instruction, always taking into consideration the best interests of the child and his improvement at a time during which he is most susceptible to improvement.
MS Code § 37-23-93 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Development Center for Retarded and Handicapped Children|§ 37-23-93. Eligibility for attendance

 Any such child in such county shall be eligible to attend the center regardless of the school district within the county in which he lives.
MS Code § 37-23-95 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Development Center for Retarded and Handicapped Children|§ 37-23-95. Employment of teachers and other personnel

 The county board of education may employ such trained teachers and other personnel as it deems necessary for the proper administration and management of a child development center.
MS Code § 37-23-97 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Development Center for Retarded and Handicapped Children|§ 37-23-97. Acquisition of necessary lands, equipment and furnishings; acceptance of grants

 The county board of education may acquire necessary lands, equipment and furnishings by purchase, barter, gift or otherwise and may participate in federal or private grants for the construction, development or operation of such a center.
MS Code § 37-23-99 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Development Center for Retarded and Handicapped Children|§ 37-23-99. Procedure for establishment

 The county board of education shall initiate the establishment of such a center by adoption of a resolution stating its intention and shall transmit to the board of supervisors of its county a properly certified copy of such resolution stating its intention to establish a child development center, including estimated costs of land purchase, construction and operational costs per year and the proposed sources of the necessary revenues. The board of supervisors shall make an independent investigation and confirm or deny the need and practicality for such a center.
MS Code § 37-23-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Development Center for Retarded and Handicapped Children|§ 37-23-101. Bonds

 If the board of supervisors shall confirm the action of the county board of education, then the board of supervisors may issue bonds in an amount not to exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) to bear the expense, or a portion of it, for the construction of such center. The bonds shall be for a period not to exceed twenty-five (25) years at a rate of interest not to exceed six percent (6%) per annum. Said bonds so issued shall be full faith and credit obligations of such county. The principal of and interest on same shall be paid out of funds made available by said board of supervisors by the annual ad valorem tax levied upon all of the taxable property within the county in an amount necessary to pay the interest thereon as the same becomes due to be paid, and the principal of said bonds as the same falls due to be paid.
MS Code § 37-23-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Development Center for Retarded and Handicapped Children|§ 37-23-103. Tax levy

 The board of supervisors of any such county is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to levy an ad valorem tax on all taxable property within the county not to exceed two mills, the avails of which shall be used for the construction, operation, furnishings and maintenance of any such center so established. The tax levy herein authorized shall not be reimbursable under the homestead exemption laws of this state.
MS Code § 37-23-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Development Center for Retarded and Handicapped Children|§ 37-23-105. Election regarding establishment

 There shall be held an election, conforming in all respects to applicable statutes governing special elections, in which the proposition authorized in Sections 37-23-91 through 37-23-103 shall be submitted for approval or rejection by the electorate of said county. The power and authority to levy taxes or to issue bonds as provided in Sections 37-23-101 and 37-23-103, shall be contingent upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified electors of said county participating in said election.
MS Code § 37-23-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Development Center for Retarded and Handicapped Children|§ 37-23-107. Disposition of funds

 All funds provided for in Sections 37-23-91 through 37-23-111 shall be kept in a separate fund and shall be used exclusively for the construction, operation, furnishings and maintenance of any such center so established. Any funds accumulated which are not used in any fiscal year shall remain in said separate fund for that use in the succeeding year or years. Such funds shall be expended upon order of the county board of education, and by warrant issued by the county superintendent of education.
MS Code § 37-23-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Development Center for Retarded and Handicapped Children|§ 37-23-109. Receipt of contributions from federal and state governments

 Any child development center created under the provisions of Sections 37-23-91 through 37-23-111 shall be entitled to receive all contributions and benefits allowed to the other school districts from the federal and state governments including, but not limited to, contributions on the basis of the average daily attendance per child, school textbooks and school lunch program.
MS Code § 37-23-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Development Center for Retarded and Handicapped Children|§ 37-23-111. Location

 Any center created under the provisions of Sections 37-23-91 through 37-23-111 may be constructed at any location within the county either in or outside of a municipality.
MS Code § 37-23-121 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 23 - Exceptional Children|Learning Resources System|§ 37-23-121. Short title

 Sections 37-23-121 through 37-23-131 shall be cited as the "Mississippi Learning Resources Law of 1974."