Summary
The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) is the state education agency of Mississippi. It is headquartered in the former Central High School Building at 359 North West Street in Jackson.[1][2]
The State Superintendent of Education is Dr. Raymond Morgigno [3]
Operations edit
In August 2015 smoke from a fire in a nearby hotel, as well as water resulting from the incident, damaged the Central High building, so the MDE temporarily moved its headquarters to the South Pointe Business Park in Clinton. The headquarters were scheduled to move back on July 25, 2016.[1]
Structure edit
State Superintendent edit
The constitution designates the state superintendent the chief administrative officer of the Department of Education.[4]
Mississippi Board of Education edit
The Mississippi Board of Education is responsible for setting public education policy, monitoring school funding[4] and appointing the State Superintendent of Education. The nine-member Board is appointed according to the rules in the Mississippi Constitution.[5]
Superintendents edit
- Henry R. Pease (1869–1873)
- Thomas Cardozo (1873–1876)
- Thomas S. Gathright (1876)
- James Argyle Smith (1877–1885)
- J. R. Preston (1885–1895)
- Andrew Armstrong Kincannon (1896–1898)
- Henry L. Whitfield (1898–1900)
- Joseph Neely Powers
- William H. "Corn Club" Smith[6][7][8]
- Robert P. Taylor, nominated to be state superintendent of education and served in an interim capacity, but not confirmed by the Mississippi Senate in 2023[9]
- Carey M. Wright
References edit
- ^ a b "MDE Offices to Move Back to Central High School Building". Mississippi Department of Education. 2016-07-19. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
- ^ "home". Mississippi Department of Education. Retrieved 2019-11-18. - Map seen in homepage points to the building
- ^ "Mississippi Board of Education". Mississippi Department of Education. 2018.
- ^ a b Winkle 2014, p. 127.
- ^ "Mississippi Board of Education". Mississippi Department of Education. 2018.
- ^ Bettersworth, John K. (1951). ""CORN CLUB" SMITH: The War Years at Mississippi A. & M. College". The Social Science Bulletin. 5 (1): 15–22. JSTOR 45214684.
- ^ Riley, Franklin Lafayette (1915). "School History of Mississippi: For Use in Public and Private Schools".
- ^ "W.H. "Corn Club" Smith".
- ^ "Mississippi Senate Rejects Black State Superintendent Amid 'Woke' Criticisms". 30 March 2023.
Works cited edit
- Winkle, John W. III (2014). The Mississippi State Constitution (second ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199300631.
External links edit
- Mississippi Department of Education
- Mississippi Department of Education (mde.k12.ms.us) at the Wayback Machine (archive index) (1999-?)
- Mississippi Department of Education (mdek12.state.ms.us) at the Wayback Machine (archive index) (1996-)