Title 37, Education

The operation and control of the Coahoma Community College District shall be vested in a board of trustees representing the counties lying within the district. The board shall consist of fourteen (14) trustees selected in the manner provided in Section 37-29-65(4), Mississippi Co…

The President and the Board of Trustees of the Coahoma Community College District shall have the powers to do all things necessary for the successful operation of the district and the campuses located therein. The college of the district shall be under the direction of the board …

The Board of Trustees of the Coahoma Community College District shall each year, on or before June 15, prepare a budget which shall contain a detailed estimate of the revenues and expenses anticipated for the ensuing year for general operation and maintenance, and shall set forth…

The Board of Trustees of the Coahoma Community College District shall have the authority to purchase property, make capital improvements, and lease or use private or public facilities at the campus, in the discretion of the board.

The Coahoma Community College District is charged with the responsibility for providing preprofessional courses, liberal arts, technical, vocational and adult education courses, and shall undertake to provide the same as conveniently as is possible to the residents of the distric…

The Board of Trustees of the Coahoma Community College District shall have the general borrowing and bonding authority provided in Sections 37-29-101 through 37-29-127. The board of trustees shall have the taxation authority provided in Sections 37-29-141 through 37-29-145.

All of the property located in Coahoma County and belonging to the Board of Trustees of Mississippi Delta Community College prior to and as of the effective date hereof, cooperating in the Coahoma County Community College, and utilized or held for the present or future use and be…

All counties located within the Coahoma Community College District shall allocate fifty percent (50%) of any millage levied for the support and maintenance of community colleges by such county under Section 37-29-141, Mississippi Code of 1972, to the Coahoma Community College Dis…

Whenever the Mississippi Community College Board shall, by a proper resolution, declare the necessity of the formation of nonprofit corporations for the purpose of acquiring or constructing facilities for community and junior colleges under its jurisdiction, any number of natural…

(a) Each corporation formed under the provisions of Section 37-29-601 shall have the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form:(a) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time, which …

All bonds issued by an educational building corporation may be executed and delivered at any time and from time to time, may be in such form and denominations, may be of such tenor, may be payable in such installments and at such time or times not exceeding thirty (30) years from…

(1) All bonds issued by an educational building corporation shall be solely and exclusively obligations of the corporation and shall not create an obligation or debt of the State of Mississippi. The state shall not pledge its full faith or credit for the payment of any debt incur…

All bonds issued by an educational building corporation shall be lawful investments for trusts, insurance companies, savings companies, banks and other financial institutions organized under the laws of this state.

The executive head of a junior college shall be the president of the college who shall be selected by the board of trustees for a term not to exceed four years.

(1) The Mississippi Community College Board is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to pass proper resolutions declaring the necessity of the formation of nonprofit educational building corporations, as set forth in Section 37-29-601. (2) When the principal of and …

(a) The educational building corporations authorized under Sections 37-29-601 through 37-29-613, in connection with the issuance of the bonds in order to secure the payment of such bonds and interest thereon, shall have power by resolutions:(a) To fix and maintain fees, rentals a…

(1) The president of any community college, or such other person designated or authorized by the board of trustees, shall have the power to recommend to the board of trustees all teachers to be employed in the district. (2) The president may remove or suspend any member of the fa…

(1) Except as provided in this section and in Sections 37-29-409, 37-29-457 and 37-29-505, there shall be five (5) trustees from each county of the junior college district which originally entered into and gave financial aid in establishing the junior college. On June 30, 1992, t…

(1) The duties of the board of trustees shall be the general government of the community/junior college and directive of the administration thereof. Subject to the provisions of Sections 37-29-1 through 37-29-273, the board shall have full power to do all things necessary to the …

Any junior college district is hereby authorized and empowered to operate junior college attendance centers at existing sites of junior college plants and facilities and at such other places within the district, subject to the approval of the Mississippi Community College Board, …

The board of trustees shall annually prepare a budget which shall contain a detailed estimate of the revenues and expenses anticipated for the ensuing year for general operation and maintenance and which shall set forth the reasonable requirements for anticipated needs for capita…

The board of trustees is authorized to execute oil, gas and mineral leases on any of the property owned by the board of trustees of the district, but such leases shall not extend for a term beyond five years unless oil, gas or other minerals shall be in production under said leas…

When any land or other property owned by a junior college/community college district shall cease to be used or needed by the district, the same may be sold by the board of trustees upon sealed bids or at public auction after three (3) weeks’ advertisement in a newspaper in the co…

When any junior college district in which the junior college campus is located in a county having a population in excess of two hundred thousand (200,000) according to the 1970 federal decennial census, owns lands adjacent to lands owned by any county forming a part of such distr…

The board of trustees of any junior college is hereby authorized to lease the buildings and equipment thereof to any responsible individual for the purpose of carrying on a private school when there are no funds available for running said institution, and to lease the lands of sa…

Any junior college district is charged with the responsibility for providing preprofessional courses, liberal arts, technical, vocational, and adult education courses and shall undertake to provide the same as conveniently as is possible to the residents of the district, and to t…

The district, in the discretion of the board of trustees, may charge fees and tuitions in accordance with Section 37-103-25.

The board of trustees of any public junior college district is hereby authorized to purchase liability insurance to cover the official actions of its board members and the official actions of employees of such public junior college district. Such coverage shall be in an amount ju…

(a) The board of trustees of any public junior college district is hereby authorized, in its sole discretion, to convey real property and improvements thereon to any county within the junior college district without the necessity of advertising for and receiving bids and without …

The State of Mississippi hereby accepts all the provisions and benefits of an act passed by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, entitled: “An act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for co-op…

Sections 37-31-101 through 37-31-111 shall be called the “Mississippi Manpower Development and Training Act of 1974.”

(1) The State Board of Education is authorized to develop and establish special education and skill training programs to fill specific employment opportunities in areas of the state that have both employment opportunities and able-bodied unemployed and underemployed groups of adu…

Allowable costs for public schools may include salaries of instructors, cost of equipment, supplies, supervision, rental of space and equipment, utilities, custodial services, and other costs justifiable for the specific programs. There shall be no cost to students for any traini…

Qualified students for the classes or courses may be accepted by the schools from any source, but priority of enrollment will be given referrals from the Department of Child Protection Services, state employment service, vocational rehabilitation, and nonretired veterans. The sta…

The State of Mississippi shall appropriate sums of money for the support of vocational education from year to year, sufficient at least to equal the amounts allotted year by year to the State of Mississippi for vocational education by the federal government under the provisions o…

An annual report on program activities and results shall be prepared by the state department of education, vocational division, and submitted to the legislature with the overall annual vocational education report.

(1) Any appropriation that may be made under the provisions of Sections 37-31-1 through 37-31-15 shall be used by the board for the promotion of vocational education as provided for in the “Smith-Hughes Act” and for the purpose set forth in Sections 37-31-1 through 37-31-15. The …

The school board may, in its discretion, cooperate with the State Board of Education in the establishment and maintenance of vocational and technical schools or classes giving instruction in vocational and technical training which does not terminate in a bachelors degree to perso…

(a) Wherever used in this chapter, or in any other statute, rule or regulation affecting the Vocational Education Division of the State Department of Education and any of its functions or duties:(a) The word “board” shall mean and refer to the State Board of Education.(b) The wor…

(1) The State Board of Education shall have the authority to:(a) Expend funds received either by appropriation or directly from federal or private sources;(b) Channel funds to secondary schools, community and junior colleges and regional vocational-technical facilities according …

(a) The State Board of Education shall have the following duties:(a) To seek the best available projections of employment and occupations for Mississippians;(b) To utilize these projections and other considerations to set vocational and technical education priorities;(c) To utili…

The Legislature shall appropriate to the State Board of Education those state funds to be expended by the board through the Division of Vocational and Technical Education of the State Department of Education.

The intention of Sections 37-31-31 through 37-31-41 is to enable the State of Mississippi, by and through the state board of education to secure the benefits of the federal social security act pertaining to services for crippled children, and said sections shall be liberally cons…

For the purpose of enabling the state board of education to comply with the provisions of the federal social security act and to continue to extend and improve as far as practicable the services now maintained by said state board for locating crippled children and for providing m…

Sections 37-31-31 through 37-31-41, together with funds made available through that section of those sections of the federal social security act which relates to crippled children, together with any and all available state and federal appropriations, shall be administered by the …

The state board of education shall make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare may from time to time require under the terms of the federal social security act, and shall comply with such provisions as the sec…