{"id":5,"date":"2023-08-10T15:28:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/districttransformation\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2024-09-05T20:09:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T20:09:59","slug":"district-and-school-performance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/districttransformation\/","title":{"rendered":"School and District Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Office of School and District Transformation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Serve as the liaison between the Mississippi Department of Education and the school districts that are under state control by providing a clear course of transformation: establishing high expectations for all students, using data to track student progress and performance, and reflecting frequently on the effectiveness of the school\/district transformation process.<\/li>\n<li>Supervise the comprehensive articulation of district transformation efforts by the Mississippi Department of Education in the education community and the community at-large.<\/li>\n<li>Provide direction, guidance, and support in the school\/district transformation process while monitoring the implementation process.<\/li>\n<li>Collaborate frequently with the Interim Superintendents to implement on-going evaluation and improvement of instructional programs.<\/li>\n<li>Work collaboratively with other program offices in the Mississippi Department of Education to deploy the necessary supports to the schools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>State of Emergency<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whenever the governor declares a state of emergency in a school district, the State Board of Education may assign an interim superintendent to the local school district. \u00a0For states of emergency declared under 37-17-6(11)(b), the State Board of Education may abolish the school district and assume control and administration of the schools formerly constituting the district and appoint an interim superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons for declaring a state of emergency in a local school district include, but are limited to, the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An extreme emergency exists in a school district that jeopardizes the safety or educational interests of the children enrolled in the schools in that district and that the emergency is believed to be related to a serious violation or violations of accreditation standards or state or federal law;<\/li>\n<li>If a school district meets the State Board of Education\u2019s definition of a failing school district for two (2) consecutive full school years;<\/li>\n<li>Or in the event that more than fifty percent (50%) of the schools within the school district are designated as Schools At-Risk in any one year;<\/li>\n<li>A lack of financial resources; or<\/li>\n<li>Failure to meet minimum academic standards as evidenced by a continued pattern of poor student performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdek12.org\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/District%20Trans\/dates_of_takeovers_august_2024.pdf\"><strong>History of District Takeovers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdek12.org\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/District%20Trans\/achievement_school_districts_webpage.pdf\">Achievement School Districts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Office of School and District Transformation Serve as the liaison between the Mississippi Department of Education and the school districts that are under state control by providing a clear course of transformation: establishing high expectations for all students, using data to track student progress and performance, and reflecting frequently on the effectiveness of the school\/district [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/districttransformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/districttransformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/districttransformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/districttransformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/districttransformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/districttransformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/districttransformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/districttransformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}