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§ 37-9-3. Employment of non-instructional employees - Except as otherwise provided in Section 37-167-1, within the limits...
§ 37-9-4. Compensation of attorney employed by school board who is a member of the Legislature - The compensation of any attorney employed by a school board...
§ 37-9-7. Employment of unlicensed superintendent, principal or teacher; conditional contracts; expiration of license during term of contract - It shall be unlawful for any superintendent, principal or teacher...
§ 37-9-9. Rules and regulations governing issuance of teachers' certificates; compensation of teachers serving special needs of district - No teacher shall experience a reduction in salary for the...
§ 37-9-11. Testing of applicants for teacher licensure - The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to...
§ 37-9-12. Referendum on continuation or abolition of office of county superintendent of education - The qualified electors of any county having an elected county...
§ 37-9-14. General duties and powers of superintendent of school district - All agricultural high school and junior college funds shall be...
§ 37-9-15. Selection of assistant superintendents and principals; interim conservators - No later than February 15 of each year, the superintendent...
§ 37-9-17. Selection of licensed employees or non-instructional employees to be employed for school year; increase in compensation of certain licensed employees; fingerprinting and criminal background checks for applicants - When the licensed employees have been elected as provided in...
§ 37-9-21. Nepotism in hiring of superintendents, principals or licensed employees - It shall be illegal for any superintendent, principal or other...
§ 37-9-23. Form and execution of contracts with superintendents, principals, licensed employees, and others anticipating graduation from approved programs; conditional contracts - The superintendent shall enter into a contract with each assistant...
§ 37-9-24. Contracts with licensed personnel for not less than 187 employment days - Beginning with the 1994-1995 school year, no school district shall...
§ 37-9-25. Contracts for periods greater than one scholastic year - The school board shall have the power and authority, in...
§ 37-9-27. Bond of superintendents - The superintendent of any school district, before entering upon the...
§ 37-9-31. Bond of principals - All school principals and attendance center principals shall furnish good...
§ 37-9-35. Employment of teachers to be paid from minimum education program funds - No school district shall employ any teachers to be paid...
§ 37-9-37. Factors considered in fixing salaries of superintendents, principals or licensed employees - The amount of the salary to be paid any superintendent,...
§ 37-9-41. Manner of payment of salaries - The salaries of superintendents, principals and licensed employees shall be...
§ 37-9-43. Payment of salary prior to execution of written contract; effect of breach of contract - It shall be unlawful for any appointed superintendent, principal or...
§ 37-9-49. Deduction of dues, etc., from salaries - It shall be unlawful for the superintendent of schools to...
§ 37-9-55. Release from contract - Any appointed superintendent, principal or licensed employee in any public...
§ 37-9-57. Effect of abandonment of employment - If any appointed superintendent, principal or licensed employee in any...
§ 37-9-59. Grounds and procedure for dismissal or suspension of licensed employee; attendance at different school system by child as ground for denying employment or reemployment of superintendent, principal or licensed employee - For incompetence, neglect of duty, immoral conduct, intemperance, brutal treatment...
§ 37-9-61. Unlawful reprisal against school district employee for employee's involvement in effort to create or encourage participation in public charter school prohibited - A school district, school district employee or any other person...
§ 37-9-69. General duties of superintendents, principals and teachers - It shall be the duty of each superintendent, principal and...
§ 37-9-71. Suspension or expulsion of pupils - The superintendent of schools and the principal of a school...
§ 37-9-75. Strikes by teachers - The provisions of this subsection (8) shall be cumulative and...
§ 37-9-79. Professional school counselors; qualifications; comprehensive counseling services; code of ethics - 1. School counseling core curriculum: This curriculum is designed to...
§ 37-9-81. Contracts with individuals with professional experience in academic, finance or other managerial and operational functions of schools to serve as consultants to the schools; certain individuals ineligible to serve as consultant - The school board of a local school district may contract...
Education Employment Procedures Law
§ 37-9-101. Short title; declaration of legislative intent - Sections 37-9-101 through 37-9-113 shall be known as and cited...
§ 37-9-104. Written notice of determination not to offer superintendent a renewal contract - If the board of trustees makes a preliminary determination not...
§ 37-9-105. Written notice of decision not to offer employee renewal contract; deadline for notification of nonreemployment - If a recommendation is made by the school district not...
§ 37-9-109. Rights of employee receiving notice of nonrenewal generally; request for hearing; finality of decision - An employee who has received notice under Section 37-9-105, upon...
§ 37-9-111. Hearing - The employee shall be afforded an opportunity to present matters...
Beginning Teacher Support Program
§ 37-9-201. Definitions - As used in Sections 37-9-201 through 37-9-213: "Beginning teacher" means...
§ 37-9-203. Legislative findings - The Legislature finds that: The quality of teaching in the...
§ 37-9-207. Application by school district to participate in program - Each district that wishes to participate in the beginning teacher...
§ 37-9-209. Workshops to provide training for mentor teachers and beginning teachers - After consulting with representatives of teachers, administrators, school boards, schools...
§ 37-9-213. Powers and duties of Mississippi Teacher Center - The Mississippi Teacher Center shall be responsible for the regular...
Beginning Principal Support Pilot Program -