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MS Code § 37-13-131 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Comprehensive School Health Education Program|§ 37-13-131. Administration of program; Office of Comprehensive School Health Education; curriculum components

  The State Department of Education is designated as the state agency responsible for the administration and supervision of the Comprehensive School Health Education Program as an educational curriculum in the State of Mississippi. It is the intent of the Legislature that all funds made available to the State Department of Education for the purpose of comprehensive school health education shall be administered by the State Department of Education.   Pursuant to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, the State Department of Education is authorized to establish an Office of Comprehensive School Health 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 health education in Kindergarten through Grade 12. The State Department of Education, through the Office of Comprehensive School Health Education, shall assume the further responsibility for promoting a statewide effort designed to prepare local school faculties and staffs to incorporate the comprehensive health education concept into their local educational programs.   The Mississippi Department of Health, in conjunction with the Office of Student Development-Branch of Health-Related Services of the State Department of Education, shall develop a long-range strategic plan for a Comprehensive School Health Education Program in Grades K through 12. The Comprehensive School Health Education Program shall encompass four (4) interdependent components: (a) health education; (b) health service; (c) physical education and fitness; and (d) a healthful school environment. These curriculum components shall be designed to develop decision-making competencies related to health and health behavior. Such curriculum components are intended to motivate health maintenance and promote wellness, not only to prevent disease or disability. The Mississippi Department of Health, in conjunction with the Office of Student Development-Branch of Health-Related Services of the Department of Education, shall develop the strategic plan and make a report thereon to the Governor and the Legislature on or before January 1, 1995.
MS Code § 37-13-133 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Comprehensive School Health Education Program|§ 37-13-133. Professional and nonprofessional staff for program

 Under the provisions of Section 37-13-131, the State Department of Education may provide for the services of a School Health Services Coordinator, School Instruction Coordinator, School Environmental Specialist, and such other professional and nonprofessional staff as may be needed and as funds available to the department will permit. The State Department of Education, subject to the availability of funds specifically for such purpose, shall employ a physical activity coordinator K-12 not later than sixty (60) days after receipt of such funds, in accordance with the provisions of Section 37-13-134. It shall be the responsibility of that professional staff 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 comprehensive health education curriculum.
MS Code § 37-13-134.1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Comprehensive School Health Education Program|§ 37-13-134.1. School health grant pilot program; purpose; components of implementation plan

  Subject to available funding, the State Department of Education, in consultation with the State Department of Health, shall establish the school health grant pilot program to improve student health by assisting local school districts in implementing a school health program. In order to qualify for a school health grant, a school district shall submit a detailed implementation plan, developed in accordance with the guidelines for a school health program developed by the State Department of Education, and including the following components:   A dedicated school health coordinator and technical and administrative support for collection of data and program evaluation.   A description of how the school district currently addresses physical activity, nutrition, and other obesity prevention measures.   A description of how the school district would use the state grant to augment what it is currently doing, including defining priorities based on the students' health need and meeting education performance indicators, developing an action plan for addressing those needs based on realistic goals and measurable objectives, establishing a timeline for implementation, and developing and maintaining a system to evaluate progress and outcomes for the program.   All school districts receiving grants will report annually to the State Department of Education progress towards the achievement of state education performance indicators and standards and requirements relating to physical activity and nutrition.     The amount in the school health grant pilot program shall be limited to the amount appropriated and shall be available to school districts based on the guidelines developed by the State Department of Education.   Any grants made to school district shall be expended to supplement and not supplant any funds already expended as school health programs. For this purpose, expenditures of components enumerated in subsection (2) of this section for the current fiscal year shall be considered the base expenditure on school health and any school district receiving grant funds shall maintain this base.   There is created in the State Treasury a fund into which any public or private funds from any source shall be deposited for the support of the activities of coordinated school health grant pilot program.   State grants are only for coordination and improvement of school health programs to improve student health in accordance with the detailed plan submitted in accordance with subsection (2) of this section.   The State Department of Education and the State Department of Health shall coordinate existing school health programs, grants and initiatives. To the extent possible, existing contracts and waiver requirements and funding, including Medicaid funding, shall also be coordinated.   The use of grant funds shall be subject to audit by the Office of the State Auditor.
MS Code § 37-13-135 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Comprehensive School Health Education Program|§ 37-13-135. Implementation of program by school boards; local health education council; cooperation by school boards of school districts; implementation and development of plans by Commission on School Accreditation

  In addition to all other authority, duties and powers the school boards of the school districts of this state may now have, each is authorized and empowered to adopt plans for the implementation of the Comprehensive School Health Education Program into the local school curriculum.   School boards shall appoint a local health education council to make recommendations regarding a comprehensive health education curriculum.   There shall be cooperation between the State Department of Education, Office of Comprehensive School Health Education and the school boards of the several school districts in implementing this program as it best suits the needs of the individual districts.   The Commission on School Accreditation shall encourage the development of plans of comprehensive school health education and the implementation thereof.
MS Code § 37-13-137 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Comprehensive School Health Education Program|§ 37-13-137. State Board of Education to develop regulations to promote healthy food choices and food preparation for school children; Office of Healthy Schools to train certain school district personnel on healthy food service practices

  The State Board of Education shall adopt regulations as provided in this section not later than March 1, 2008, which shall be effective for compliance by school districts beginning with the 2008-2009 school year, for the Child Nutrition School Breakfast and Lunch Programs that are not in conflict with the regulations of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The regulations shall take into account the most recent and advanced scientific principles regarding good human health and fitness, and the effect of the regulations must be that the good health, well-being and fitness of Mississippi school children shall be advanced. The regulations shall include, but not be limited to, the following areas:   Healthy food and beverage choices;   Healthy food preparation;   Marketing of healthy food choices to students and staff;   Food preparation ingredients and products;   Minimum and maximum time allotment for students and staff lunch and breakfast periods;   The availability of food items during the lunch and breakfast periods of the Child Nutrition School Breakfast and Lunch Programs; and   Methods to increase participation in the Child Nutrition School Breakfast and Lunch Programs.     The Office of Healthy Schools of the State Department of Education shall provide comprehensive training for superintendents, business managers, food service directors and food service managers of a local school district, or the designees appointed by those individuals for training purposes, as required by the department on marketing healthy foods, creating a healthy cafeteria environment, effective and efficient food service operations, the standards and expectations of food service staff, and other topics as identified by the department. The department may determine the time and location of the trainings and the frequency with which they are held. Persons employed by a local school district having the certification as a Food Service Administrator III or IV shall be exempt from the training requirements of this subsection.   Local school districts may adopt rules and regulations that may be more stringent but not in conflict with those adopted by the State Board of Education under this section.
MS Code § 37-13-151 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Home Economics Programs|§ 37-13-151. Provision of programs of education by school districts; contents; approval

 Before July 1, 1997, all local school districts shall provide programs of education in home economics, in Grade 10, 11 or 12, which include course work in responsible parenting and family living skills. These programs shall contain instruction to prepare students to understand children's physical, mental, emotional and social growth and development as well as to assume responsibility for their care and guidance, with emphasis on nutrition, emotional health and physical health. All such programs shall be subject to the approval of the State Board of Education pursuant to Section 37-31-205(1)(d).
MS Code § 37-13-153 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Home Economics Programs|§ 37-13-153. State funding for programs

 State funding for the home economics programs required in Section 37-13-151 shall be phased in over a period of three (3) school years, beginning with the 1994-1995 school year. In the minimum education program and vocational education appropriation bills for fiscal year 1994-1995, there shall be a line item specifying the amount that is to be expended to employ no less than one (1) instructor in each high school in no less than one-third (1/3) of the school districts in the state. In the minimum education program and vocational education appropriation bills for fiscal year 1995-1996, there shall be a line item specifying the amount that is to be expended to employ no less than one (1) instructor in each high school in no less than two-thirds (2/3) of the school districts in the state. In the minimum education program and vocational education appropriation bills for fiscal year 1996-1997, there shall be a line item specifying the amount that is to be expended to employ no less than one (1) instructor in each high school in each school district in the state. Any funds so appropriated by line item which are not expended for this purpose in the vocational education appropriation may be expended for other related home economics vocational purposes during the fiscal year for which those funds were appropriated. The State Board of Education shall determine which districts shall receive funds for the home economics programs during each of the three (3) years of the phase-in period.
MS Code § 37-13-155 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Home Economics Programs|§ 37-13-155. Application by school district or community/junior college district for funding to acquire and operate home economics training program for local community

 Subject to the availability of funds appropriated therefor, any school district or community/junior college district may apply for funding through the Division of Vocational and Technical Education of the State Department of Education to acquire and operate a home economics training program to provide instruction in quality child care and educational programs to the local community.
MS Code § 37-13-161 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Religious Matters in Public School Courses of Study|§ 37-13-161. Religious matters proper for inclusion in public school courses

 Nothing in this code shall be construed to prevent any local school board, in its discretion, from allowing references to religion or references to or the use of religious literature, history, art, music or other things having a religious significance in the public schools of such school district, when such references or uses do not constitute aid to any religious sect or sectarian purpose and when such references or uses are incidental to or illustrative of matters properly included in the course of study.
MS Code § 37-13-163 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Religious Matters in Public School Courses of Study|§ 37-13-163. Posting or reading of historical documents with religious references; display of motto "In God We Trust."

  Any teacher, administrator, school council or local school board in any public school district in this state may post in a public school building, classroom or at any school event or read from any historical document or writing relating to the founding of the United States of America or this state, or both, notwithstanding the fact that such materials may include religious quotations, references or illustrations. There shall be no content-based censorship of American or Mississippi History, heritage or culture based on any religious references contained in such documents, writings or records.   Principals and teachers in each public elementary and secondary school of each school district in this state shall display on an appropriately framed background with minimum dimensions of eleven (11) inches by fourteen (14) inches, the following motto of the United States of America in each classroom, school auditorium and school cafeteria under his or her supervision: "IN GOD WE TRUST." For purposes of this provision, "classroom" shall mean any room of a public school where instruction takes place.
MS Code § 37-13-173 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Sex and Abstinence Education|§ 37-13-173. Notice to parents; right to request inclusion of children in program of instruction; review of materials

 Each school providing instruction or any other presentation on human sexuality in the classroom, assembly or other official setting shall be required to provide no less than one (1) week's written notice thereof to the parents of children in such programs of instruction. The written notice must inform the parents of their right to request the inclusion of their child for such instruction or presentation. The notice also must inform the parents of the right, and the appropriate process, to review the curriculum and all materials to be used in the lesson or presentation. Upon the request of any parent, the school shall excuse the parent's child from such instruction or presentation, without detriment to the student.
MS Code § 37-13-175 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Sex and Abstinence Education|§ 37-13-175. Application of Sections 37-13-171 and 37-13-173 to biological science courses

 Nothing in Sections 37-13-171 and 37-13-173 shall apply to any biological science course or curriculum.
MS Code § 37-13-181 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Character Education|§ 37-13-181. Character education programs in public schools authorized

 The local school boards of the public school districts, in their discretion, may develop and implement, at the beginning of the 1999-2000 school year, a comprehensive program for character education in Grades K-12. The definition of the character traits chosen by the school district for implementation shall reflect and be in keeping with both the spirit and the letter of the following founding documents: the Mississippi Constitution of 1890; the Constitution of the United States of America; the Declaration of Independence; and state and federal law. A public school may not define or teach character or character traits in any manner that might promote or encourage students to participate in conduct that would violate any state or federal law.
MS Code § 37-13-183 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Character Education|§ 37-13-183. Assessment of students' understanding of character traits

 Assessment of the students' understanding of the character traits chosen to be taught in public school shall be limited to and must reflect the material taught in the classroom. Students shall not be evaluated in any way as to whether or not the students evidence a specific character trait in their own lives.
MS Code § 37-13-185 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Character Education|§ 37-13-185. Review of proposed character education programs by State Board of Education

 The State Board of Education shall review the proposed character education programs of the individual school districts to ascertain if the programs comply with the criteria set forth in Section 37-13-181. Review of the programs shall not exceed a time period of sixty (60) days. If a review extends beyond this time period, the proposal will be deemed in compliance with the law.   If the proposed character education program is rejected, the State Board of Education shall set forth in writing the specific areas of objection. These objections must be based on and limited to the following criteria: the definition of the character traits chosen by the school district for implementation shall reflect and be in keeping with both the spirit and letter of our founding documents; no instruction shall promote or encourage participation in any conduct that would violate existing state or federal law; and no student shall be assessed or evaluated as to whether or not the student evidences a specific character trait in his or her own life.
MS Code § 37-13-191 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Civil Rights and Human Rights Education|§ 37-13-191. Legislative intent

 Understanding the important role the Civil Rights Movement had on the State of Mississippi and understanding the importance of teaching Mississippi's children all of our history, it is the goal of this Legislature to provide meaningful support to this most important endeavor. Mississippi's central role in the civil rights struggle needs to be formalized and taught as a beacon of hope for all of our citizens.
MS Code § 37-13-193 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 13 - Curriculum; School Year and Attendance|Civil Rights and Human Rights Education|§ 37-13-193. Civil rights and human rights education in public schools authorized; guidelines to be implemented

 The State Board of Education may make civil rights and human rights education a part of the K-12 curriculum of instruction in Mississippi public schools. The State Department of Education shall work with the Mississippi Civil Rights Education Commission established in Section 37-13-195 in implementing these five (5) guidelines: (a) provide assistance and advice to K-12 schools with respect to the Civil Rights Movement and human rights education and awareness programs; (b) survey and catalog the extent to which civil rights and human rights education exists in state curricula; (c) inventory civil rights memorials, exhibits and resources that could be used in classrooms and other educational programs; (d) compile a list of volunteers who are willing to share their knowledge and experiences concerning the struggle for civil rights; (e) prepare reports for the Governor and the State Legislature on the inclusion of civil rights studies into the educational systems of the state.