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General Provisions Pertaining to Education
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-1— Assignment of pupil to class where presence of pupil would have adverse effect on class; request by parent or guardian to place twins or other multiples in same or separate classrooms
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-3— Separation of students according to sex
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-5— Instruction in fire drills, emergency management, and active shooter drills
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-6— Purchase and installation in each school of weather radio
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-7— Acceptance of National School Lunch Act and Child Nutrition Act
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-8— Office of Healthy Schools of the State Department of Education to develop and implement the Healthier School Initiative; purpose; financial incentives to certain schools; eligibility criteria to participate in HealthierUS School Challenge
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-9— Payment by school board of medical expenses for injuries sustained in athletic activities; purchase of hospitalization insurance
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-11— Furnishing of instruction and training for hospitalized children
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-13— Employment of education personnel suffering from tuberculosis
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-15— Repealed
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-17— Physical examinations of employees for infectious or communicable diseases; spinal curvature screening program for students
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-18— Expulsion of student possessing controlled substance or weapon or committing violent act on school property
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-18.1— Expulsion of habitually disruptive students aged 13 years or older upon third occurrence of disruptive behavior within school year
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-19— Suspension or expulsion of student damaging school property; liability of parent or custodian
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-20— Intimidation, threatening or coercion of students for purpose of interfering with attendance of classes
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-21— Abuse of superintendent, principal, teacher, or bus driver
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-23— Disturbing public school sessions or meetings
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-25— Interest in proceeds or profits of sale or rental of property used in public schools
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-27— Interest in contracts involving public schools
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-29— Reporting of unlawful activity or violent act on educational property or during school related activity; authority of law enforcement officers; reporting of disposition of charges against student; liability of school personnel participating in reporting
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-31— Contents of report pursuant to § 37-11-29
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-33— Fees for reports pursuant to § 37-11-29; disposition of reports
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-35— Penalties for failure to file reports pursuant to Section 37-11-29 or 97-5-24
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-37— Public high school fraternity, sorority or secret society; definition
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-39— Public high school fraternity, sorority or secret society; illegality
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-41— Public high school fraternity, sorority or secret society; membership or participation in activities
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-43— Public high school fraternity, sorority or secret society; duties of boards of trustees
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-45— Public high school fraternity, sorority or secret society; solicitation of pupils
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-47— Stonewall Jackson Memorial Board; Memorial Fund
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-49— Wearing of approved eye protective devices required during participation in certain vocational, industrial arts, and chemical-physical laboratory courses of instruction
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-51— Documents exempt from Public Records Act
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-53— School district discipline plans; appearance by parents, guardians or custodians at discipline conferences; recovery from parents for damage or destruction of school property; parent allowed to accompany child to school as alternative to child’s suspension
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-54— State Board of Education to develop list of conflict resolution and peer mediation materials, models, and curricula from evidence-based practices and positive behavioral intervention supports
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-55— Code of student conduct
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-57— Immunity of school personnel from liability for carrying out action in enforcing rules regarding control, discipline, suspension and expulsion of students; exception for students with disabilities
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-59— Repealed
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-61— Local school districts and agricultural high schools to provide parents information about meningococcal disease; State Board of Health to develop information about meningococcal disease for distribution to parents
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-63— Local school boards, school superintendents and school principals not permitted to prohibit teachers from discussing and answering questions about the origin of life
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-64— Prohibition against school administrators or other employees changing, altering or otherwise influencing grade received by student from teacher; exceptions; violation
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-65— Students in grades 7-12 to be suspended from participation in extracurricular or athletic activity for failure to maintain certain cumulative grade point average
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-66— Local school board adoption and implementation of written policy regarding school district’s requirement for awarding a minimum grade
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-67— Bullying or harassing behavior in public schools prohibited
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-69— Anti-bullying personnel and discipline policies and code of student conduct
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-71— Mississippi Asthma and Anaphylaxis Child Safety Act; legislative findings and declarations; self-administration of asthma and anaphylaxis medication; policy regarding administration of auto-injectable epinephrine by authorized school personnel; school district requirements relating to children with asthma
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-73— Disbursement of certain funds by school districts to nonprofit foundations under certain circumstances
- Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-75— Certain nonpublic schools to include in driver’s education program instruction in how a person should properly respond when stopped by law enforcement officers