Mississippi Code
Chapter 3 - State Department of Education
§ 37-3-3. Office and seal of department

The office of the State Department of Education shall be in the City of Jackson, Mississippi. The state capitol commission shall provide suitable quarters therefor.
The state superintendent of public education shall provide and keep a seal having around the margin thereof the words "State Department of Education" with the coat of arms of the state in the center. All official acts of the department shall be certified under said seal.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 37 - Education

Chapter 3 - State Department of Education

§ 37-3-2. Certification of teachers and administrators

§ 37-3-3. Office and seal of department

§ 37-3-3.1. State Department of Education board room designated the Senator Grey Ferris Board Room

§ 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 superintendent; exemption of certain school administrators

§ 37-3-5. General duties of department; grants of property to public and agricultural high schools; administration of department

§ 37-3-8. Studies and reports by department of education relating to teaching out of fields and mastery of subject matters

§ 37-3-11. General duties of state superintendent

§ 37-3-12. Responsibility of state superintendent for planning functions of department

§ 37-3-39. Custody and disbursement of funds of department

§ 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

§ 37-3-79. Curriculum Coordinator of Music and Art Education

§ 37-3-81. School Safety Center

§ 37-3-82.1. Schools unable to meet financial requirements for participation in MCOPS program authorized to develop alternative plans for student security

§ 37-3-85. After-school mentoring programs

§ 37-3-89. School discipline and classroom management courses; requirement; approval

§ 37-3-103. In-service training on suicide prevention education for newly employed school district employees

§ 37-3-105. In-service training for all licensed grades K through 3 public school district teachers to include intensive, comprehensive, research-based reading methods

§ 37-3-107. Curriculum guidelines for implementation of school bus safety curriculum for grades K through 3