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Then named the Mississippi Private School Association, it was founded in 1968 as an accrediting agency for segregation academies. [1] [2] Many of those schools no longer exist, while others have minorities enrolled and are accredited by other bodies such as the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools .
The Mississippi Delta region. The Mississippi Delta region has had the most segregated schools -- and for the longest time—of any part of the United States. As recently as the 2016–2017 school year, East Side High School in Cleveland, Mississippi, was practically all black: 359 of 360 students were African-American. [1]
The Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) was passed by the Mississippi Legislature in 1997, and its aim was to increase student achievement and eliminate inequity among school districts. The law provides a formula that distributes the necessary educational resources to Mississippi school districts equally.
Jackson Public Schools is the second-largest school district in Mississippi, serving nearly 21,000 scholars, representing more than 80 percent of school-aged children in the state's capital and only urban municipality. Jackson, Mississippi has about 170,000 residents in an area of 104 square miles. There are 7 high schools, 10 middle schools ...
Mississippi's Constitution of 1868, drafted by a biracial convention [citation needed], was the first legislation to provide for free public education for all children in the state. The constitution established a “uniform system of free public schools, by taxation or otherwise, for all children between the ages of five and twenty-one years.”.
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Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District ( GLCSD) is a school district serves Greenwood, Mississippi and the rest of Leflore County. It was established on July 1, 2019, [1] as a merger of the Greenwood Public School District and the Leflore County School District . The initial superintendent is Dr. Mary Brown. [2]