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MS Code § 37-15-30 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-30. Pupil's compliance with residency requirement in district if parent is transferred to military installation within the state while on active duty; electronic application for enrollment and course registration; proof of residence

  Notwithstanding any provision of law, a pupil complies with the residency requirements for school attendance in a school district if the parent of the pupil is transferred to, or is pending transfer to, a military installation within this state while on active military duty pursuant to an official military order.   A school district shall accept an application for enrollment and course registration by electronic means for a pupil who meets the requirements prescribed in subsection (1) of this section, including enrollment in a specific school or program within the school district.   The parent of a pupil who meets the requirement prescribed in subsection (1) of this section shall provide proof of residence to the school district within ten (10) days after the published arrival date provided on official documentation. The parent may use the address of any of the following as proof of residence for the purposes of this subsection:   A temporary on-base billeting facility.   A purchased or leased home or apartment.   Any federal government housing or off-base military housing, including off-base military housing that may be provided through a public-private venture.     For the purposes of this section:   "Active military duty" means full-time military duty status in the active uniformed service of the United States, including members of the National Guard and the State Military Reserve on active duty orders.   "Military installation" means a base, camp, post, station, yard, center, homeport facility for any ship or other installation under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Defense or the United States Coast Guard.
MS Code § 37-15-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-33. Testing of transfer students; assignment of students

 All students seeking to transfer from any school, public, private or homeschool within or outside of the boundaries of the State of Mississippi, to a public school within the state may be required to take a test to determine the grade and class to which the pupil shall be assigned at the time of pupil transfer.   The administrative head of each public school shall administer the test or tests to such pupil or pupils as shall apply for transfer to such public school. Such test or tests shall be administered within thirty (30) days after the filing of each such application for transfer. Notice of the giving of such test shall be given the applicant not less than five (5) days prior to the date of the administration of such test.   No transfer of a pupil shall be effected until the test has been given and the pupil is assigned according to the grade and class for which the test shows he is best suited. No pupil shall be assigned to a grade and class more than three (3) grades above or below the grade or class that the pupil would have been assigned to had the pupil remained in the school from which the transfer is being made. Pending the administration of the test herein provided for and its grading and an assignment based thereon the superintendent of the school district or the attendance center principal to which the pupil seeks admission may assign the pupil temporarily to a grade and class comparable to that in which the pupil would have been had the pupil continued in the school from which the transfer was being made.   If any student is transferred or reassigned within the school district by order of the board of trustees of that school district as designated by law of the State of Mississippi and not at his own request, the requirement of that pupil's taking the standardized test shall be waived. Likewise, if a pupil shall transfer from one school district to another school district in the manner provided and required by the laws of the State of Mississippi, the requirement of such pupil taking the standardized test shall be waived.
MS Code § 37-15-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 15 - Public Schools; Records, Enrollment and Transfer of Pupils|§ 37-15-35. Segregation or integration of schools by reason of race, color, or national origin

 No person shall be assigned to or by, or restricted from or to, any group, area, school, institution or other political subdivision of the State of Mississippi on the account of race, color, or national origin. There shall be no governmentally enforced segregation by race, color or national origin and there shall be no governmentally enforced integration by reason of race, color or national origin.
MS Code § 37-16-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 16 - Statewide Testing Program|§ 37-16-1. Purpose

 The primary purpose of the statewide testing program is to provide information needed for state-level decisions. The program shall be designed to:   Assist in the identification of educational needs at the state, district and school levels.   Assess how well districts and schools are meeting state goals and minimum performance standards.   Provide information to aid in the development of policy issues and concerns.   Provide a basis for comparisons among districts, between charter schools throughout the state and nonpublic charter schools in those school districts in which charter schools are located, and between districts, the state and the nation, where appropriate.   Produce data which can be used to aid in the identification of exceptional educational programs or processes.
MS Code § 37-16-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 16 - Statewide Testing Program|§ 37-16-5. Assessment of student performance and achievement by district school boards

 The school board of every district in this state shall periodically assess student performance and achievement in each school. Such assessment programs shall be based upon local goals and objectives which are compatible with the state's plan for education and which supplement the minimum performance standards approved by the state board of education. Data from district assessment programs shall be provided to the state department of education when such data is required in order to evaluate specific instructional programs or processes or when the data is needed for other research or evaluation projects. Each district may provide acceptable, compatible district assessment data to substitute for any assessment data needed at the state level when the state department of education certifies that such data is acceptable for the purposes of Section 37-16-3.
MS Code § 37-16-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 16 - Statewide Testing Program|§ 37-16-7. Establishment of graduation standards established by district school boards; standard diploma

  Each district school board shall establish standards for graduation from its schools which shall include as a minimum:   Mastery of minimum academic skills as measured by assessments developed and administered by the State Board of Education.   Completion of a minimum number of academic credits, and all other applicable requirements prescribed by the district school board.   By school, information on high school graduation rates. High schools with graduation rates lower than eighty percent (80%) must submit a detailed plan to the Mississippi Department of Education to restructure the high school experience to improve graduation rates.     A student who meets all requirements prescribed in subsection (1) of this section shall be awarded a standard diploma in a form prescribed by the State Board of Education.   The State Board of Education may establish student proficiency standards for promotion to grade levels leading to graduation.
MS Code § 37-16-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 16 - Statewide Testing Program|§ 37-16-9. Modification of testing instruments and procedures for students with identified handicaps or disabilities

  The state board shall, after a public hearing and consideration, make provision for appropriate accommodations for testing instruments and procedures for students with identified handicaps or disabilities in order to ensure that the results of the testing represent the student's achievement, rather than reflecting the student's impaired sensory, manual, speaking or psychological process skills, except when such skills are the factors the test purports to measure.   The public hearing and consideration required hereunder shall not be construed to amend or nullify the requirements of security relating to the contents of examinations or assessment instruments and related materials or data.   Children with disabilities shall be included in general statewide and district-wide assessments programs, with appropriate accommodations, where necessary. As appropriate, the State Department of Education and the local educational agency shall:   Develop policies and procedures for the participation of children with disabilities in alternate assessments for those children who cannot participate in statewide and district-wide assessment programs; and   Develop and, beginning not later than July 1, 2000, conduct those alternate assessments.     The State Department of Education shall make available to the public, and report to the public with the same frequency and in the same detail as it reports on the assessment of nondisabled children, the following:   The number of children with disabilities participating in regular assessments;   The number of children participating in alternate assessments;   The performance of those children on regular assessments, beginning not later than July 1, 1998, and on alternate assessments, not later than July 1, 2000, if doing so would be statistically sound and would not result in the disclosure of performance results identifiable to individual children; and   Data relating to the performance of children with disabilities shall be disaggregated for assessments conducted after July 1, 1998.
MS Code § 37-16-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 16 - Statewide Testing Program|§ 37-16-11. Special diploma or certificate of completion for students with disabilities; occupational diploma for students with disabilities

  A student who has been properly classified, in accordance with rules established by the State Board of Education shall, upon meeting all applicable requirements prescribed by the district school board, be awarded a special diploma in a form prescribed by the state board; however, such special graduation requirements prescribed by the district school board shall include minimum graduation requirements as prescribed by the state board. Any such student who meets all special requirements of the district school board for his exceptionality, but is unable to meet the appropriate special state minimum requirements, shall be awarded a special certificate of completion in a form prescribed by the state board. Nothing provided in this section, however, shall be construed to limit or restrict the right of an exceptional student solely to a special diploma. Any such student shall, upon proper request, be afforded the opportunity to fully meet all requirements of Section 37-16-7 through the standard procedures established therein and thereby qualify for a standard diploma upon graduation.   The State Board of Education shall develop and issue criteria for a Mississippi Occupational Diploma for students having a disability as defined by the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Beginning with the 2002-2003 school year, any such student, upon proper request, shall be afforded the opportunity to fully meet such requirements and qualify for an occupational diploma upon graduation.   The special Mississippi Occupational Diploma for students with disabilities shall not be available to any student entering the Ninth Grade in the 2017-2018 school year or thereafter, pending State Board of Education approval of new graduation options.
MS Code § 37-16-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 16 - Statewide Testing Program|§ 37-16-15. High school diploma granted to persons who withdrew from school before graduation; completion of requisite graduation course work requirements and passing score on assessment reasonably comparable to assessments in existence at the time student would have graduated required

  Any person who has withdrawn from high school before graduation may be granted a diploma from the Mississippi public high school that the person last attended if the person has:   Completed all requisite graduation course work requirements and has achieved a passing score on an assessment reasonably comparable to the respective assessments that would qualify the person for high school graduation as such assessments existed at the time that the student would have graduated; and   Made a request to the public high school district that the person last attended in Mississippi that includes relevant transcripts of course work completed.     The State Department of Education is authorized to determine and/or develop any reasonably comparable assessment to be administered to persons seeking to obtain a diploma from the last Mississippi public high school of attendance under the authority granted under subsection (1) of this section.
MS Code § 37-17-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 17 - Accreditation of Schools|§ 37-17-1. Authority of state board of education with respect to accreditation of noncharter and charter public schools

  The power and authority to prescribe standards for the accreditation of noncharter public schools, to insure compliance with such standards and to establish procedures for the accreditation of noncharter public schools is hereby vested in the State Board of Education. The board shall, by orders placed upon its minutes, adopt all necessary rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this chapter and shall provide, through the State Department of Education, for the necessary personnel for the enforcement of standards so established.   A charter school authorized by the Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board must be granted accreditation by the State Board of Education based solely on the approval of the school by the authorizer. If the authorizer, at any time, revokes a school's charter, the State Board of Education shall withdraw the accreditation of the charter school immediately.
MS Code § 37-17-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 17 - Accreditation of Schools|§ 37-17-3. Creation of Commission on School Accreditation; composition; qualifications, appointment, terms of office and compensation of members; expenses of commission

 The Commission on School Accreditation created under this section is hereby continued and reconstituted as follows:   The State Board of Education shall appoint a "Commission on School Accreditation" to be composed of fifteen (15) qualified members. The membership of said commission shall be composed of the following: two (2) classroom teachers, two (2) principals of schools, one (1) superintendent of a separate school district, one (1) superintendent of a county or other school district, one (1) local school board member from a separate school district; one (1) local school board member from a county or other school district; and seven (7) members who are not actively engaged in the education profession. Members of the commission serving on July 1, 1994, shall continue to serve until their term of office expires. No new appointments shall be made until such time as the expiration of a member's term has reduced the commission to less than fifteen (15) members, at which time new appointments shall be made from the categories specified hereinabove. The membership of said commission shall be appointed by the board upon recommendation of the State Superintendent of Public Education. In making the first appointments, five (5) members shall be appointed for a term of one (1) year, five (5) members shall be appointed for a term of two (2) years, five (5) members shall be appointed for a term of three (3) years, and five (5) members shall be appointed for a term of four (4) years. Thereafter, all members shall be appointed for a term of four (4) years. Said commission shall meet upon call of the State Superintendent of Public Education. There shall be three (3) members of said commission from each congressional district. Each member of said commission shall receive the per diem authorized by Section 25-3-69, Mississippi Code of 1972, plus actual and necessary expenses and mileage as authorized by Section 25-3-41, Mississippi Code of 1972, for each day actually spent in attending the meetings of the commission. The expenses of said commission shall be paid out of any funds available for the operation of the State Department of Education.
MS Code § 37-17-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 17 - Accreditation of Schools|§ 37-17-5. General duties of commission; appeals; executive secretary

 It shall be the purpose of the Commission on School Accreditation to continually review the standards on accreditation and the enforcement thereof and to make recommendations thereon to the State Board of Education. All controversies involving the accreditation of schools shall be initially heard by a duly authorized representative of the commission before whom a complete record shall be made. After the conclusion of the hearing, the duly authorized representative of the commission shall make a recommendation to the commission as to the resolution of the controversies, and the commission, after considering the transcribed record and the recommendation of its representative, shall make its decision which becomes final unless the local school board of the school district involved shall appeal to the State Board of Education, which appeal shall be on the record previously made before the commission's representative except as may be provided by rules and regulations adopted by the State Board of Education. Such rules and regulations may provide for the submission of new factual evidence. All appeals from the State Board of Education shall be on the record and shall be filed in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi. The commission shall select a competent and qualified court reporter to record and transcribe all hearings held before its duly authorized representative whose fees and costs of transcription shall be paid by the school district involved within forty-five (45) days after having been notified of such costs and fees by the commission. An appropriate member of the staff of the State Department of Education shall be designated by the State Superintendent of Public Education to serve as executive secretary of the commission.
MS Code § 37-17-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 17 - Accreditation of Schools|§ 37-17-7. Accreditation of nonpublic schools

 Any nonpublic school may, through its governing body, request that the State Board of Education approve such institution. Approval shall be based upon a process promulgated by the State Board of Education; provided, however, that in no event shall the State Board of Education adopt more stringent standards for approval of nonpublic schools than the accreditation standards applied to public schools.
MS Code § 37-17-8 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 17 - Accreditation of Schools|§ 37-17-8. Comprehensive in-service staff development plans; exemption of certain school districts

  The State Board of Education, through the Commission on School Accreditation, shall establish criteria for comprehensive in-service staff development plans. These criteria shall: (a) include, but not be limited to, formula and guidelines for allocating available state funds for in-service training to local school districts; (b) require that a portion of the plans be devoted exclusively for the purpose of providing staff development training for beginning teachers within that local school district and for no other purpose; and (c) require that a portion of the school district's in-service training for administrators and teachers be dedicated to the application and utilization of various disciplinary techniques. The board shall each year make recommendations to the Legislature concerning the amount of funds which shall be appropriated for this purpose.   School districts shall not be required to submit staff development plans to the Commission on School Accreditation for approval. However, any school district accredited at the lowest performance levels, as defined by the State Board of Education, shall include, as a part of any required corrective action plan, provisions to address staff development in accordance with State Board of Education requirements. All school districts, unless specifically exempt from this section, must maintain on file staff development plans as required under this section. The plan shall have been prepared by a district committee appointed by the district superintendent and consisting of teachers, administrators, school board members, and lay people, and it shall have been approved by the district superintendent.   In order to insure that teachers are not overburdened with paperwork and written reports, local school districts and the State Board of Education shall take such steps as may be necessary to further the reduction of paperwork requirements on teachers.   Districts meeting the highest levels of accreditation standards, as defined by the State Board of Education, shall be exempted from the mandatory provisions of this section relating to staff development plans.
MS Code § 37-17-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 17 - Accreditation of Schools|§ 37-17-9. Accreditation of schools by other agencies

 This chapter shall not be construed to establish the only accrediting agency in the State of Mississippi, and nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent any nonpublic school association or associations or group or groups from establishing its or their accrediting agency, unrelated to any such accrediting agency for public schools as established by this chapter. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent such nonpublic school accrediting agency or agencies from functioning in such capacity.
MS Code § 37-17-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 17 - Accreditation of Schools|§ 37-17-11. Exemption of school districts from compulsory standards of accreditation

 The State Board of Education, in its discretion, may exempt any school district meeting the highest levels of state accreditation standards, as defined by the State Board of Education, from any compulsory standard of accreditation. However, if the standard of accreditation is an educational policy required by statute, any such exemption shall only be made if specifically authorized by law.