{"id":581,"date":"2019-04-11T20:39:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T20:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wptest.mdek12.org\/testsite2\/2019\/04\/11\/state-board-of-education-selects-humphreys-county-and-yazoo-city-school-districts-for-achievement-school-district\/"},"modified":"2019-04-11T20:39:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T20:39:22","slug":"state-board-of-education-selects-humphreys-county-and-yazoo-city-school-districts-for-achievement-school-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/2019\/04\/11\/state-board-of-education-selects-humphreys-county-and-yazoo-city-school-districts-for-achievement-school-district\/","title":{"rendered":"State Board of Education Selects Humphreys County and Yazoo City School Districts for Achievement School District"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEWS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n

For Immediate Release:  April 11, 2019<\/p>\n

JACKSON, Miss \u2013 The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted today to place the Humphreys County and Yazoo City school districts in the state\u2019s first Achievement School District, which will launch in the 2019-20 school year.<\/p>\n

A state law enacted in 2016 requires the SBE to intervene in persistently failing school districts by placing the districts in a state-run Achievement School District (ASD). Districts that are rated \u201cF\u201d for two consecutive years or two out of three consecutive years, encompass 50% or more F-rated schools and\/or have 50% or more of their students attending F-rated schools are subject to inclusion in the ASD.<\/p>\n

Based on statewide accountability grades for the past three years, five districts meet all three criteria for the ASD: Humphreys County, Yazoo City, Amite County, Jefferson County and Clarksdale Municipal.<\/p>\n

The SBE selected Humphreys and Yazoo City to form the first ASD because, together, they have the largest number of students enrolled in F-rated schools and they are located in the same region.<\/p>\n

The new ASD will serve a total of 4,065 students, which includes 1,647 from Humphreys County and 2,418 from Yazoo City.<\/p>\n

The SBE will be the governing body of the ASD, and the local school boards will be disbanded no later than June 1, 2019.<\/p>\n

In December 2017, the SBE voted to delay its decision to name any district for the ASD until an ASD superintendent was selected. After a national search, the SBE hired Jermall Wright, Ed.D., to lead Mississippi\u2019s first ASD. Wright currently serves as chief academic and accountability officer for Birmingham City Schools and previously served in state and district leadership roles at the Alabama State Department of Education, the School District of Philadelphia (PA) and Denver Public Schools.<\/p>\n

State law requires that districts absorbed by the ASD maintain a \u201cC\u201d rating for five years to become eligible to revert back to local governance.<\/p>\n

The law allows for the SBE to select additional districts for the ASD based on its established criteria and the MDE\u2019s capacity to manage the districts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Achievement School District law requires the State Board and the MDE to intervene in the state\u2019s lowest-performing school districts in order to improve student achievement,\u201d said SBE chair Jason Dean, Ph.D. \u201cThe children in Humphreys County and Yazoo City need and deserve an education that will equip them to be successful in college, career and life. We believe in the capacity of these children to achieve better outcomes and are committed to helping them reach their greatest potential.\u201d<\/p>\n

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NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  April 11, 2019 JACKSON, Miss \u2013 The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted today to place the Humphreys County and Yazoo City school districts in the state\u2019s first Achievement School District, which will launch in the 2019-20 school year. A state law enacted in 2016 requires the SBE to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}