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MS Code § 37-61-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 61 - Expenditure of School Funds; Budgets|§ 37-61-37. Mississippi Public Education Support Fund

 There is established in the State Treasury a fund known as the "Mississippi Public Education Support Fund" (hereinafter referred to as "fund"). The fund shall consist of monies required to be deposited therein under Section 27-19-56.34, and such other monies as the Legislature may authorize or direct to be deposited into the fund. Monies in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, may be expended by the Mississippi Department of Education for classroom supplies, instructional materials and equipment, including computers and computer software, to be distributed to all school districts in the proportion that the average daily attendance of each school district bears to the average daily attendance of all school districts within the state. Unexpended amounts remaining in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund, and any interest earned or investment earnings on amounts in the fund shall be deposited to the credit of the fund.
MS Code § 37-63-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 63 - Educational Television|§ 37-63-1. Declaration of legislative purpose and public policy

 It is declared to be the legislative purpose of this chapter, and the public policy of the State of Mississippi, that there be established and developed in the public interest an educational television and radio system which shall provide educational and instructional, professional growth, and public service programs for the students and citizens of Mississippi, such system to be known as Mississippi Educational Television. The legislature therefore declares and determines that for these and other related purposes there is hereby established an agency of state government to be known as the Mississippi authority for educational television which shall have the responsibility for the administration, operation, control and supervision of educational television and radio in Mississippi.
MS Code § 37-63-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 63 - Educational Television|§ 37-63-3. Members of authority for educational television; terms

 The Authority for Educational Television shall consist of the State Superintendent of Public Education, or his designee, and six (6) members appointed, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Governor shall appoint four (4) members, one (1) of whom shall be actively engaged as a teacher or principal in a secondary school system in the State of Mississippi and one (1) of whom shall be actively engaged as a teacher or principal in an elementary school system in the State of Mississippi. Beginning July 1, 1994, the appointee actively engaged as a teacher or principal in a secondary school shall be appointed for an initial term of three (3) years. The member actively engaged as a teacher or principal in an elementary school shall be appointed for an initial term of four (4) years. The remaining two (2) gubernatorial appointees shall serve until July 1, 1996. Beginning July 1, 1996, the Governor shall appoint two (2) members for initial terms of three (3) and four (4) years, with the Governor specifically designating which member shall be appointed for three (3) years and which shall be appointed for four (4) years. The Mississippi Community College Board shall appoint one (1) member, and the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning shall appoint one (1) member. After the expiration of the initial terms, all members shall serve for terms of four (4) years. An appointment to fill a vacancy among the gubernatorial appointees, other than by expiration of a term of office, shall be made by the Governor for the balance of the unexpired term.
MS Code § 37-63-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 63 - Educational Television|§ 37-63-5. Officers of authority for educational television; meetings; compensation

 The Authority for Educational Television shall elect a chairman, vice chairman and such other officers it deems necessary. The authority shall adopt rules and regulations governing times and places for meetings, and governing the manner of conducting its business. Any member who does not attend three (3) consecutive regular meetings of the authority shall be subject to removal by a majority vote of the board members.   The authority shall meet at least bimonthly. Special meetings may be called by the chairman, vice chairman or the executive director. Four (4) members of the authority shall constitute a quorum.   Authority members who are not employed by the state shall receive per diem and actual and necessary expenses for attending meetings as provided by general law for public officers and employees. Elementary and secondary school teachers and/or elementary and secondary principals shall not be considered to be state employees for the purposes of this section.
MS Code § 37-63-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 63 - Educational Television|§ 37-63-7. Executive director and other employees

 The authority for educational television shall employ an executive director who shall be the administrative officer of the authority and shall perform such duties as are required of him by law and such other duties as may be assigned him by the authority and who shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the authority. In addition, the executive director shall be entitled to remuneration for his necessary traveling expenses consistent with general law.   The authority shall have the power and authority to employ such technical, professional and clerical personnel as may be necessary for the administration of this chapter and for the performance of such other duties as may be imposed upon the authority by law, and to define the duties and fix the compensation of such employees.
MS Code § 37-63-8 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 63 - Educational Television|§ 37-63-8. Extern training program

 The Authority shall have the authority, with the assistance and approval of the State Personnel Board, to implement extern training programs for its employees and contract with private sector businesses for such training. The training programs shall be available, at the discretion of the Authority and the Executive Director, to employees who have served with the agency for one (1) year or more. The salary of the employees may be paid by the Authority while the employee is receiving such training. No training shall be in excess of three (3) months and forty (40) hours per week. Any employee participating in such extern training program shall be required to remain employed with the Authority for a period of one (1) year following completion of the training period. Any person leaving the employment of the Authority prior to the completion of the required one (1) year period shall be liable for the salary and fringe benefits expended for the employee during the training period.
MS Code § 37-63-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 63 - Educational Television|§ 37-63-9. Acquisition and operation of facilities

  The authority is authorized and empowered to lease, purchase, own, construct, operate, manage and be the licensee of educational television and radio stations, production centers, transmission sites and all related equipment and facilities for the production and/or transmission of broadcast, closed circuit, fixed services (ITFS-2500 megahertz), radio and any other means necessary to provide complete coverage of educational television and radio in the state. The authority is also authorized and empowered to lease, purchase, own and operate any type of vehicle necessary for use in transporting equipment, production crews and service personnel.   The authority, and any other state agency or board licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to provide ITFS educational television, are authorized and empowered to provide access to video learning resources for all Mississippi public schools through the development of multi-channel interactive video systems (ITFS) for the public schools which shall be able to interact with other school districts in the state. In order to establish the ITFS system without expenditure of significant state funds, the authority, and any such other state agency or board licensee with the approval of the authority, are authorized and empowered to enter such contracts as may be necessary, including contracts with any private educational institution or private nonprofit educational organization in regard to the construction, purchase, lease or lease-purchase of facilities and equipment, employment of personnel, and the operation and management of said ITFS system for the purpose of providing ITFS educational television services to educational institutions and interested citizens in the state. The authority shall provide that all public schools are equipped to utilize the ITFS system by no later than July 1, 1998.
MS Code § 37-63-10 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 63 - Educational Television|§ 37-63-10. Conflicts of interest

 No individual who sits on any board or authority empowered to contract with the Educational Television Authority or to appoint members to the board which shall govern the use of the ITFS channels shall own or be interested in, directly or indirectly, any interest in any private organization doing business under the FCC license herein approved.
MS Code § 37-63-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 63 - Educational Television|§ 37-63-13. Authority's general powers as to educational television

 The Authority for Educational Television is empowered and is hereby designated as the proper and official state agency to:    Control and supervise the use of television broadcast and ITFS channels and radio frequencies reserved by the Federal Communications Commission for noncommercial, educational purposes in Mississippi. It is further empowered to authorize the sale or lease of any excess capacity of such ITFS channels for commercial use to provide the funds necessary to implement the purposes of Section 37-63-9(2). No pornographic material or political advertisements shall be allowed on any ITFS channel or radio frequency;   Initiate or receive for review and approval all applications for educational television and educational radio licenses submitted to the Federal Communications Commission for or on behalf of any public school system, junior college, institution of higher learning, private educational institution, or nonprofit community or municipal educational organization;   Initiate or receive for review and approval all applications for federal, state or private funds which involve the construction of educational television or radio facilities or acquisition of educational television or radio equipment;   Prescribe official state-approved standards for appropriate educational television equipment which may be purchased by any public school, junior college, institution of higher learning, private educational institution, or nonprofit community or municipal educational organization in order to insure a standard of quality and technical compatibility throughout the state;   Provide consultative services in all aspects of educational television and radio to any agency, public or private, within the state;   Serve as a clearinghouse for information on television and radio for educational purposes;   Perform all other things necessary to insure the orderly and coordinated development of educational television and radio in Mississippi; and   Determine and approve all policies governing the programming, administration, control and supervision of Mississippi Educational Television and educational radio. All programs prepared for use in the elementary and secondary schools of this state must be prepared in conjunction with the Office of the State Superintendent of Public Education prior to broadcast on Mississippi Educational Television.
MS Code § 37-63-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 63 - Educational Television|§ 37-63-15. Programming restriction

 No SEICUS (or any of its subsidiaries or connections known by any other name whatsoever) programming whatsoever shall be carried by any educational television station in the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 37-63-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 63 - Educational Television|§ 37-63-17. Authority for Educational Television to provide services to public agencies; cost of services; Capital Equipment Replacement Revolving Fund

  The Mississippi Authority for Educational Television is empowered to provide noncommercial production or reproduction services for other public agencies and may collect the costs of providing the services from the public agency plus a separate equipment usage fee in an amount determined by the authority and based upon the equipment used. The costs shall be deposited to the credit of the authority. The separate equipment usage fee shall be deposited in the Capital Equipment Replacement Revolving Fund.   The Authority for Educational Television may establish a Capital Equipment Replacement Revolving Fund into which shall be deposited equipment usage fees collected under subsection (1) and funds from other sources designated for deposit in the Capital Equipment Replacement Revolving Fund. The authority may expend moneys from the Capital Equipment Replacement Revolving Fund subject to appropriation therefor by the Legislature to purchase technical equipment for operating the educational radio and television facilities.
MS Code § 37-69-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 69 - The Energy Academy Act|§ 37-69-1. Short title

 This chapter shall be known as "The Energy Academy Act."
MS Code § 37-69-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 69 - The Energy Academy Act|§ 37-69-3. Intent

 The intent of the Legislature is to provide an opportunity for motivated students to participate in a curriculum that will prepare them for a career of employment in the energy industry in their home state.
MS Code § 37-69-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 69 - The Energy Academy Act|§ 37-69-5. Definitions

 For purposes of this chapter:   "The Board of Trustees" means the Board of Trustees of the Vicksburg-Warren School District.   "The Board of Education" means the Claiborne County Board of Education.   "Nuclear Facility" means any nuclear generating plant in the State of Mississippi.   "Energy Academy" means an energy high school created under this act.   "Partnership Council" means the Energy High School Academy Partnership Council.   "MDA" means the Mississippi Development Authority.
MS Code § 37-99-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 99 - Postsecondary Education: Provisions Common to Institutions of Higher Learning and Community and Junior Colleges|§ 37-99-1. Adoption of policies by boards of trustees of institutions of higher learning and community and junior colleges that award educational credit to student veterans for certain courses that are part of military training or service

  The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning and the boards of trustees of the community and junior colleges shall adopt policies requiring the award of educational credits to any student who is enrolled in a public institution of higher learning, community or junior college, and is also a veteran, for courses that are part of the student's military training or service, that meet the standards of the American Council on Education or equivalent standards for awarding academic credit, and that are determined by the academic department or appropriate faculty of the awarding institution to be equivalent in content or experience to courses at that institution. Credits shall be awarded in accordance with Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges standards.   Each board shall adopt the necessary rules, regulations and procedures to implement the provisions of this section, effective no later than the 2020-2021 academic year and continuing thereafter.
MS Code § 37-102-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 102 - Off-campus Instructional Programs|§ 37-102-1. Authorization of establishment; course loads; satisfaction of residency requirements; work standards and quality of degree

 The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning may establish off-campus instructional programs for existing universities. However, the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning shall not establish off-campus instructional programs if in its opinion such action is not in the best interest of quality education for the State of Mississippi and the university system.   Students at any off-campus program site may, in the discretion of the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning, be permitted to register for full-time course loads.   Attendance at an off-campus site shall fulfill the residency requirements as if the student had attended class on the parent campus of the university, and there shall be no difference in the standards for work nor quality weight of a degree earned in the off-campus program from that earned at the parent institution.
MS Code § 37-102-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 102 - Off-campus Instructional Programs|§ 37-102-3. Approval of Mississippi Community College Board

 The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning shall not permit its universities to offer courses for college credit at the lower undergraduate level at an off-campus site unless approved by the Mississippi Community College Board. The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning, in cooperation with the Mississippi Community College Board, shall study the need and advisability of offering (a) courses for college credit at the lower undergraduate level, and (b) advanced centers for technology partnerships for industrial training and professional development for credit and noncredit courses, at the following off-campus sites by four-year public state institutions of higher learning: the Mississippi Gulf Coast counties; Greenville, Mississippi; Columbus, Mississippi; McComb, Mississippi; Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Meridian, Mississippi; Laurel, Mississippi; and any other proposed area of the state. Any such study shall take into account the ongoing programs of the community and junior colleges in the State of Mississippi when said board authorizes off-campus programs created under this chapter. It is the intent of the Legislature to meet the educational needs of students who do not have ready access to the educational opportunities that they desire. It is the further intent of this chapter that university off-campus programs established hereunder will in no way usurp the responsibilities of the public junior colleges of the State of Mississippi. The board shall establish such rules and regulations as it deems necessary and proper to carry out the purposes and intent of this chapter.
MS Code § 37-102-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 102 - Off-campus Instructional Programs|§ 37-102-5. Operation and location of programs

 The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning may designate the university which shall operate and be responsible for each off-campus site. However, off-campus sites shall be located in such a manner as to make the services of the institutions of higher learning available to the people of Mississippi without unnecessary program duplication in the same geographic area.
MS Code § 37-102-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 102 - Off-campus Instructional Programs|§ 37-102-7. Budget requests

 The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning shall submit to the Legislature budget requests with off-campus programs being an identified part of the total general support budget request for universities by being a separate item within the budget request of the respective university which offers the program. Said budget request shall include a statement of all actual or estimated receipts and disbursements for such off-campus programs and such other information as may be required by the Legislative Budget Office.
MS Code § 37-102-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 102 - Off-campus Instructional Programs|§ 37-102-9. Assistance in providing facilities

 It is the intention of this chapter that the political subdivision or the people of the area may assist in providing facilities for the establishment of such off-campus sites.
MS Code § 37-102-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 102 - Off-campus Instructional Programs|§ 37-102-11. Construction of dormitories, gymnasiums, etc.

 Extracurricular items such as dormitories, gymnasiums, stadiums, and such related items shall not be constructed for use by off-campus sites of universities.
MS Code § 37-102-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 102 - Off-campus Instructional Programs|§ 37-102-13. Consideration of programs of private colleges prior to authorization of off-campus programs; purpose of chapter

 The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning shall take into account the ongoing programs of the private colleges in the State of Mississippi when said board authorizes off-campus programs created under this chapter. It is the intent of this chapter to meet the educational needs of students who do not have ready access to the educational opportunities that they desire.
MS Code § 37-102-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 102 - Off-campus Instructional Programs|§ 37-102-15. Capital improvement expenditures

  The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning and the Bureau of Buildings, Grounds and Real Property Management shall not make any expenditure for capital improvements for off-campus sites unless specifically authorized by the Mississippi Legislature. However, this shall not preclude such capital improvements from being made by county or municipal governments locally or regionally involved.   The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning and the Bureau of Buildings, Grounds and Real Property Management is specifically authorized to expend any funds available to it from private sources, from the proceeds of the sale of any property and improvements currently on the site of Mississippi State University off-campus instructional program at Meridian and from the proceeds of funds designated to the Mississippi State University system for "repair, renovation and new construction" in Chapter 2, Section 2, General Laws, First Extraordinary Session of 1989, for the construction, equipping and furnishing and new building, and/or for the repair, renovation, equipping and furnishing of any existing building at the Mississippi State University off-campus instructional program site at Meridian, Mississippi. The board of trustees is hereby authorized to receive and expend matching funds from the local, county and municipal governments for such construction, equipping, furnishing, repair or renovation.
MS Code § 37-102-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 102 - Off-campus Instructional Programs|§ 37-102-17. Exemption from chapter

 The associate degree program in nursing of the University of Southern Mississippi located at Natchez, Mississippi, is exempt from this chapter.