Chapter 3 - State Department of Education.
- 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; additional required training for local school board members and the local superintenden
- 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 - Appointment, qualifications, compensation and bond of State Superintendent of Public Education.
- 37-3-11 - General duties of state superintendent.
- 37-3-12 - Responsibility of state superintendent for planning functions of department.
- 37-3-13 - Appointment and compensation of deputy superintendents, associate superintendents, directors and other employees.
- 37-3-15 - through 37-3-23. Repealed.
- 37-3-25 - Appointment, compensation and duties of Director of Division of Vocational and Technical Education.
- 37-3-27 - Repealed.
- 37-3-29 - Repealed.
- 37-3-31 - Repealed.
- 37-3-33 - through 37-3-37. Repealed.
- 37-3-39 - Custody and disbursement of funds of department.
- 37-3-41 - Repealed.
- 37-3-43 - Repealed.
- 37-3-46 - Assistance to certain local school districts to establish program of educational accountability and assessment of performance; personnel appraisal and compensation system for school employee
- 37-3-47 - Repealed.
- 37-3-48 - Repealed.
- 37-3-49 - Adoption by school district of instructional program and management system; paperwork reduction; exemption of certain district.
- 37-3-51 - Notification of Department of Education of conviction of licensed person of certain felonies of sex offenses.
- 37-3-53 - "Mississippi Report Card" on performance of students and public schools.
- 37-3-55 - Repealed.
- 37-3-57 - Repealed.
- 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 §§ 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 mentoring 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, 2010].
- 37-3-95 - Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) statewide coordinator; powers and duties.
- 37-3-97 - State Department of Education and Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning to jointly prepare annual report to the Legislature on state teacher education programs.
- 37-3-99 - Curriculum choices for students who are interested in direct entry into the workforce upon high school graduation; pilot program to redesign secondary schools to function as workforce develo
- 37-3-101 - In-service training on suicide prevention education for all licensed teachers and principals.
- 37-3-103 - In-service training on suicide prevention education for newly employed licensed teachers and principals.
- 37-3-105 - In-service training for all licensed grades K through 3 teachers to include intensive, comprehensive, research-based reading methods.