MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

Index for Chapter 003 of Title 37

37-3-1.  Organization of state department of education. 
37-3-2.  Certification of teachers and administrators.
37-3-3.  Office and seal of department. 
37-3-4.  School Executive Management Institute; basic and continuing education courses for school board members. 
37-3-5.  General duties of department; grants of property to public and agricultural high schools; administration of department. 
37-3-7.  Study of costs of insurance on school buildings and facilities. 
37-3-8.  Studies and reports by department of education relating to teaching out of fields and mastery of subject matters. 
37-3-9.  State Superintendent of Public Education; duties; compensation.
37-3-11.  General duties of state superintendent. 
37-3-12.  Responsibility of state superintendent for planning functions of department. 
37-3-13.  Assistant state superintendent; directors; employees.
37-3-25.  Director of Division of Vocational and Technical Education.
37-3-39.  Custody and disbursement of funds of department. 
37-3-46.  Assistance to local school districts to establish program of educational accountability and assessment of performance; personnel appraisal and compensation system for school employees; programs to prevent dropouts. 
37-3-49.  Adoption by schol district of instructional program and management system; paperwork reduction. 
37-3-51.  Notification of Department of Education of conviction of certificated person of certain felonies of sex offenses.
37-3-53.  "Mississippi Report Card" on performance of students and public schools.
37-3-55.  Student advancement pilot program for requiring uniform school term for Grades 1 through 8. 
37-3-59.  Summer kindergarten program for Grade 1 readiness; summer developmental program for Grades 1 through Grade 8. 
37-3-61.  Alliance for Families programs; authorization; objectives. 
37-3-63.  Alliance for Families program; procedure for establishment. 
37-3-65.  Alliance for Families program; purpose. 
37-3-67.  Alliance for Families program; components. 
37-3-69.  Alliance for Families program; measurement of success. 
37-3-71.  Alliance for Families program; participation by students and school districts; evaluation and report by State Board of Education. 
37-3-73.  Rewarding of parents for involvement in school improvement; parent of year awards. 
37-3-75.  Awards for exemplary performing public schools and school programs. 
37-3-77.  State funding of programs provided for in Secs. 37-3-55 through 37-3-71; expenditure of local funds for specified programs; implementation of specified programs deemed discretionary. 
37-3-79.  Curriculum Coordinator of Music and Art Education. 
37-3-81.  School Safety Center.
37-3-83.  School Safety Grant Program.
37-3-84. Confiscation of illegal firearms; reward.
37-3-85.  After-school monitoring programs. 
37-3-87.  Student vision screening program. 
37-3-89. School discipline and classroom management courses; requirement; approval. 
37-3-91. Regional behavioral institutes; discipline and classroom management strategies; participation. 
37-3-93 School Crisis Management Program; quick response teams; toll-free telephone service for reporting school violence [Repealed effective July 1, 2007].
37-3-95 Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) statewide coordinator; powers and duties.

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