Thursday, September 14, 2017

Board of Education to discuss JPS takeover today

The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following press release. 


Commission on School Accreditation Determines State of Emergency Exists in Jackson Public School District

JACKSON, Miss. – The Commission on School Accreditation determined today that an extreme emergency exists in the Jackson Public School District (JPS) that jeopardizes the safety, security, and educational interests of the children enrolled in the schools in the district. As a result, the Mississippi State Board of Education will consider on September 14 whether to ask Gov. Phil Bryant to declare a state of emergency in the district.  

The regularly scheduled Board meeting will begin at 10 a.m. September 14 in the Fourth Floor Board Room of the Central High School Building, 359 N. West St., Jackson. The Board will follow the same format as the Commission in allowing JPS and the Mississippi Department of Education to address the Board prior to the Board’s determination. View the Board meeting agenda here.
Note: The 4th floor Board Room seating capacity is approximately 70 people. When the room reaches capacity, all other visitors will be directed to the 2nd floor auditorium in the Central High School Building, where they can watch the meeting via live stream. View the live stream of all monthly State Board of Education Meetings at https://msachieves.mdek12.org.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Discussions?
As a resident of Jackson and I pay more than my fair share of taxes and I get no benefit from the public school system as I send my 4 kids to 1st press or Jackson prep I say it's long overdue for a state takeover

Anonymous said...

Take the schools by any means necessary.

Anonymous said...

After reading some of the issues at JPS, no doubt the State needs to take it over. First the schools, then the city please.

Anonymous said...

Take the schools over and cancel all sports except for tennis and golf.

Anonymous said...

Wonder if MDE will have to cancel swimming?

Anonymous said...

Everyone says teachers are heroes but that must be a huge joke.

Admiral Akuno Ackbar said...

JPS is the Death Star of the Community. Once the Bow Tie of security is removed and the State takes over the schools, flying the State Flag over every school, we WILL unleash our fleet of hoopty Malcolm X wing fighters in protest, nobody will go to school because of that flag and it WILL get changed faster than Kennuf can eat a pig ear sammich. IT'S A TRAP!

Anonymous said...

10:53 wins for amazing Star Wars reference. I tip my blast shield to you. May the Force be with us all.

Anonymous said...

10:53 wins for the pig ear sammich reference, too!

Anonymous said...

Implicit in the concept of state takeover is the assumption that the state will have the human and financial resources to improve the system under fire. For small districts, like most in Mississippi, this is probably true. A takeover of Tutwiler or Tchula is a lot different than taking over Jackson or Hattiesburg. It does not mean the action isn't warranted, but the decision must be a matter of resources if it is going to be effective. For a district the size of JPS it must be the subject of a serious evaluation by the board. Hopefully, the board will be thoughtful in determining the role the state can reasonably assume in a "takeover" that will be of real benefit to the students and not just give a knee jerk reaction to JPS's failings as most of these bloggers, many of whom don't care if the kids have no schools at all.

Anonymous said...

JPS needs to understand they lost INSTITUTIONAL CONTROL over the district. What they were doing was not working. It won't work anywhere for that matter. The graduates did not have enough credits. What does that tell you? I say take it over and abolish the athletics until they can get their housekeeping in order....oh, but that would affect several community colleges and major universities football programs.....

Anonymous said...

The parents that don't care about their kids under the current system aren't suddenly going to suddenly care about their kids when the state takes over. It won't get better, no matter the resources. That's the bad news. The good news is that the SPLC will make sure that the kids whose parents do care and try to escape their failing neighborhood schools for charters won't have that opportunity. I'm sure we can count on the SPLC lawyer suing to place his kids in JPS, right?

PittPanther said...

I look forward to one aspect of the takeover; that people formerly forced to attend JPS schools can cross borders and attend Madison, Rankin, or Clinton schools.



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