The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 4/16/8
The state could remove school superintendents in low-performing districts under legislation that passed the House and Senate Tuesday and is heading to Gov. Haley Barbour.
The legislation has strong backing from the state Board of Education and the Mississippi Economic Council as possibly part of the puzzle to improving perennially low-performing districts.
“We’re trying to do what is best for our kids,” said Senate Education Committee Chairman Videt Carmichael, R-Meridian.
The bill was designed to be a compromise. Various groups, including the state Board of Education, have advocated replacing all elected superintendents with appointed superintendents and making all school boards elected.
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