State board overview
Mississippi State Board of Education
Statewide K–12 governance. Source coverage is partial; full-year and committee records are incomplete.
Who sets statewide education policy?
The Mississippi State Board of Education governs statewide public K–12 education. Its nine statutory members are appointed by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the House with Senate advice and consent. The Superintendent of Education serves as the Board’s secretary; the official directory identifies the Superintendent as Executive Secretary. The Superintendent is not one of the nine appointed Board seats.
Nine appointed seats
Article 8, Section 203 of the Mississippi Constitution establishes nine appointment seats, divided among the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the House, with Senate advice and consent.
Statewide K–12 authority
The Board is the statewide education governing body, not a local school district or NCES LEA.
Appointments rather than elections
No Board election is scheduled. The standing appointment process includes nine-year terms; the reviewed official roster identifies a teacher-representative term ending in July 2027, but no specific replacement nomination date was posted.
What the public record establishes
Read-only staging inventory count as of October 25, 2026; this is a source count, not a meeting count or coverage measure.
Major projects
FY2028 K–12 funding request
The Board approved its FY2028 budget request on July 23, 2026; legislative disposition is not established in the reviewed records.The Board-approved request sets out the State Board’s proposed FY2028 public-school funding request. Board approval authorizes the request to proceed; it does not establish legislative enactment, a final appropriation, or disbursement. The published July 23 meeting report links the official request and ratified minutes.
- The Board approved its FY2028 budget request. The action approves the request; legislative enactment and later disbursements are not established here.
Funding
State funds requested for FY2028 through the Board’s public-school funding request; this is a request, not an enacted appropriation.
The reviewed records do not establish the final legislative appropriation, the Board’s consolidated operating appropriation, or actual spending.
This staging overview uses the Mississippi Constitution, the official MDE Board roster and meeting indexes, and reviewed official records. Meeting outcomes are grounded in ratified minutes; proposals and APA process starts are distinguished from final adoption. Published coverage is partial.
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