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Carroll County School District (Mississippi)
The Carroll County School District is a public school district based in Carrollton, Mississippi (USA). The district's boundaries parallel that of Carroll County. It is also known as Carroll County School District (CCSD). History Billy Joe Ferguson became the superintendent in 1996. Clippingfrom Newspapers.com. Schools * J. Z. George High School ( North Carrollton) *Marshall Elementary School (unincorporated area, adjacent to North Carrollton) ; Former schools * Vaiden High School ( Vaiden) – Consolidated into J. Z. George HS in 1999 * Hathorne Elementary School (Vaiden) In 2006 Hathorne Elementary had 141 students and 21 employees. That year the district leadership proposed closing the school, something criticized by George Tubreville, mayor of Vaiden. The consolidation of Vaiden High and a decline in enrollment at Hathorne contributed to the district deciding to close the elementary school. Hathorne Elementary closed in 2010 and the district stopped using the building. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School District
A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary and secondary schools in various nations. North America United States In the U.S, most K–12 public schools function as units of local school districts, which usually operate several schools, and the largest urban and suburban districts operate hundreds of schools. While practice varies significantly by state (and in some cases, within a state), most American school districts operate as independent local governmental units under a grant of authority and within geographic limits created by state law. The executive and legislative power over locally controlled policies and operations of an independent school district are, in most cases, held by a school district's board of education. Depending on state law, members of a local board of education (often referred to informally as a school board) may be elected, appointed by a political office holder, serve ex officio, or a combination of any of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaiden, Mississippi
Vaiden is a town in Carroll County, Mississippi, United States and its first county seat. The population was 734 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area. History Vaiden was founded about 1857 and named after Dr. Cowles Mead Vaiden (04/21/1812 - 02/06/1880), a local doctor, planter, and philanthropist. In the late 1850s, Dr. Vaiden gave the right-of-way through his land for construction of the last span of the Central Railroad, in order to connect the state capital, Jackson, Mississippi, with Memphis, Tennessee. Around the railroad's completion in 1857, the population that had settled at the former Choctaw Indian town of Shongalo was moved to the east, to allow for better access to the railroad. The new town was named in honor of Dr. Vaiden, and was made a regular stop on the railroad line. For that reason, it was designated as the county seat of Carroll County. Vaiden was incorporated on February 10, 1860. With additional development of popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carroll Academy
Carroll Academy (CA) is a private K-12 school in Carrollton, Mississippi. ''The Atlantic'' identified it as a segregation academy, a school created to thwart racial integration. In 2010 it had no African-American students. The school was established in the ex-Jennie McBride School on August 28, 1969. In 2011 the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) stated that the Council of Conservative Citizens funds the school. As of 2018 the school had 309 students, of which 305 were white and 4 were of two or more races. See also * Carroll County School District – The public school system of the county ** J. Z. George High School – Public high school ** Vaiden High School Vaiden High School was a public middle and high school in Vaiden, Mississippi. It was a part of the Carroll County School District It occupies a property, and is in a three story classroom building. See clipping fromNewspapers.com History Prior ... – Former high school in Vaiden in Carroll County Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of School Districts In Mississippi
This is a list of school districts in Mississippi. Alcorn County *Alcorn School District * Corinth School District Attala County * Attala County School District * Kosciusko School District Bolivar County *Cleveland School District *North Bolivar Consolidated School District *West Bolivar Consolidated School District Chickasaw County *Chickasaw County School District *Okolona Municipal Separate School District Clarke County * Enterprise School District *Quitman School District Coahoma County *Clarksdale Municipal School District * Coahoma County School District Copiah County * Copiah County School District * Hazlehurst City School District Forrest County * Forrest County Agricultural High School *Forrest County School District *Hattiesburg Public School District * Petal School District Hancock County *Bay St. Louis-Waveland School District * Hancock County School District Harrison County *Biloxi Public School District * Gulfport School District *Harrison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows, Windows, macOS, Android (operating system), Android and iOS. It features calculation or computation capabilities, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro (computer science), macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Excel forms part of the Microsoft Office suite of software. Features Basic operation Microsoft Excel has the basic features of all spreadsheets, using a grid of ''cells'' arranged in numbered ''rows'' and letter-named ''columns'' to organize data manipulations like arithmetic operations. It has a battery of supplied functions to answer statistical, engineering, and financial needs. In addition, it can display data as line graphs, histograms and charts, and with a very limited three-dimensional graphical display. It allows sectioning of data to view its dependencies on various factors for different perspectives (using ''pivot tables'' and the ''sce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood Commonwealth
''The Greenwood Commonwealth'' is a newspaper serving in and operating out of Greenwood, Mississippi Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta region, approximately 96 miles north of the state capital, Jackson, and 130 miles south of the riverp .... It began publication in 1896. ." ''The Greenwood Commonwealth''. Retrieved on March 25, 2012. Governor and senator James Vardaman was its editor in the early 20th century. References External links *The Greenwood Commonwealth ' < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Head Start (program)
Head Start is a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and families. The program's services and resources are designed to foster stable family relationships, enhance children's physical and emotional well-being, and establish an environment to develop strong cognitive skills. The transition from preschool to elementary school imposes diverse developmental challenges that include requiring the children to engage successfully with their peers outside the family network, adjust to the space of a classroom, and meet the expectations the school setting provides. Launched in 1965 by its creator and first director Jule Sugarman anBernice H. Fleiss Head Start was originally conceived as a catch-up summer school program that would teach low-income children in a few weeks what they needed to know to start elementary school. The H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississippi Department Of Education
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. The State Superintendent of Education is Carey M. Wright. Operations 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. Structure State Superintendent The constitution designates the state superintendent the chief administrative officer of the Department of Education. Mississippi Board of Education The Mississippi Board of Education is responsible for setting public education policy, monitoring school funding and appointing the State Superintendent of Education. The nine-member Board is appointed according to the rules in the Mississippi Constitutio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaiden High School
Vaiden High School was a public middle and high school in Vaiden, Mississippi. It was a part of the Carroll County School District It occupies a property, and is in a three story classroom building. See clipping fromNewspapers.com History Prior to 1941, grades 1-12 occupied three buildings made of wood. Its current building, then for grades 1–12, opened in 1941 in the same plot which once held the wooden buildings, making it the first 1-12 consolidated school in southern Carroll County. Theresa Vigour of ''The Conservative'' stated that Vaiden "is one of the smallest choolsin the state." Clippingfrom Newspapers.com. Circa 1996 officials from the Mississippi Department of Education had discussed requiring small schools to consolidate, something that, along with the expense of renovating schools to add technology, prompted Carroll County school district officials to seek consolidation. In 1999 Vaiden High consolidated into J. Z. George High School in North Carrollton. The dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrollton, Mississippi
Carrollton is a town in and the second county seat of Carroll County, Mississippi, United States, which is within the Mississippi Delta. The population was 190 at the 2010 census, down from 408 in 2000. Centrally located in the county, the town is part of the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area. The first county seat, Vaiden, Mississippi, was founded in the eastern part of the county during its early settlement. History The town was developed as the county seat and trading center for rural Carroll County, which was devoted to cotton agriculture and plantations in the antebellum era. Geography Carrollton is located in central Carroll County on the south side of Big Sand Creek, a tributary of the Yalobusha River. According to the United States Census Bureau, Carrollton has a total area of , all land. The town borders North Carrollton, which is located directly to the north across the creek. Mississippi Highways 17 and 35 pass through the center of Carrollton, leading nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unincorporated Area
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have no unincorporated areas at all or these are very rare: typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or List of uninhabited regions, uninhabited areas. By country Argentina In Argentina, the provinces of Chubut Province, Chubut, Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba, Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos, Formosa Province, Formosa, Neuquén Province, Neuquén, Río Negro Province, Río Negro, San Luis Province, San Luis, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero Province, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, and Tucumán Province, Tucumán have areas that are outside any municipality or commune. Australia Unlike many other countries, Australia has only local government in Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Carrollton, Mississippi
North Carrollton is a town in Carroll County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 473 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area. Geography North Carrollton is bordered to the south by the town of Carrollton, the county seat. The two towns are separated by Big Sand Creek, a tributary of the Yalobusha River. Many residents of Carrollton and North Carrollton consider the towns a single entity, simply referred to as Carrollton. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 United States census, there were 405 people, 170 households, and 76 families residing in the town. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 499 people, 226 households, and 153 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 253 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 56.51% White, 42.89% African American, and 0.60% f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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