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West Jones High School
West Jones High School, the "Home of the Mustangs," is a public school in Laurel, Mississippi, part of the Jones County School District. The school provides education to grades 712. The school was named the state's Tech Prep Exemplary Site for 19752003 by the Tech Prep Exemplary Site Selection Committee. The school has become the high school of choice for most Jones County parents. A great academic school with high test scores and a great athletic program. In recent years, the campus has been renovated with a new Performing Arts Center, a new cafeteria, and new technology systems. In the 20122013 school year, West Jones High School was classified as a "High Performing School" by the Mississippi Department of Education. Notable alumni * Stacey E. Pickering (Class of 1986) - State Auditor of Mississippi from 2008 to 2018. * Byron Young, Professional Football Player for the Las Vegas Raiders The Las Vegas Raiders are a professional American football team based in the Las ...
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Jones County School District (Mississippi)
The Jones County School District is a public school district based in Ellisville, Mississippi (USA). In addition to Ellisville, the district also serves a small section of Laurel and the towns of Moselle, Ovett, Sandersville, Sharon, Jones County,Gray, Sharon, Soso, Mississippi, Soso, and the Jones County portion of Georgia. Schools Middle/high schools (and their principals) *Grades 7–12 **Northeast Jones High School – Dr. Jennifer Lowery; Supervising Principal **South Jones High School – Dr. Catherine Ladner; Supervising Principal **West Jones High School – Cooper Pope; Supervising Principal Elementary schools (and their principals) *Grades K-6 **East Jones Elementary School – Sylvia Busby; Supervising Principal **Glade Elementary School – Lisa Ishee; Supervising Principal **North Jones Elementary School – Robert Hill; Supervising Principal **Moselle Elementary School – Juanna Warren; Supervising Principal **West Jones Elementar ...
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Soso, Mississippi
Soso is a town in Jones County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 418 at the 2020 census. Paul Davis, a singer and songwriter from Meridian, Mississippi, wrote a song called "Sweet Magnolia Blues", which refers to Soso. History According to tradition, the name "Soso" was derived from an old settler's common response to a question about how he was doing: "so-so". After the Civil War, yeoman farmers returned to the area. The town developed a small mixed-race community. Among its notable residents was Unionist Newton Knight, who lived there mostly after the Reconstruction era with his wife Rachel and family. Knight was known for having led the Knight Company in and around Jones County during 1863 and 1864 in resistance to Confederate authorities, trying to protect local farmers. After the war he lived in Jasper County for a time, where he was active in the Republican Party. In 1872 he was appointed as a deputy U.S. Marshal for the Southern District. After Reconstruct ...
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Public School (government Funded)
State schools (in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand) or public schools (Scottish English and North American English) are generally primary or secondary schools that educate all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation. State funded schools exist in virtually every country of the world, though there are significant variations in their structure and educational programmes. State education generally encompasses primary and secondary education (4 years old to 18 years old). By country Africa South Africa In South Africa, a state school or government school refers to a school that is state-controlled. These are officially called public schools according to the South African Schools Act of 1996, but it is a term that is not used colloquially. The Act recognised two categories of schools: public and independent. Independent schools include all private schools and schools that are privately governed. Independent schools with low tui ...
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Laurel, Mississippi
Laurel is a city in and the second county seat of Jones County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 17,161. It is located northeast of Ellisville, the first county seat, which contains the first county courthouse. Laurel has the second county courthouse as there are two judicial districts in Jones County. Laurel is the headquarters of the Jones County Sheriff's Department, which administers in the county. Laurel is the principal city of a micropolitan statistical area named for it. Major employers include Howard Industries, Sanderson Farms, Masonite International, Family Health Center, Howse Implement, Thermo-Kool, and South Central Regional Medical Center. Laurel is home to the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Mississippi's oldest art museum, established by the family of Lauren Eastman Rogers. History Following the 1881 construction of the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad through the area, economic development occurred rapidly. T ...
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Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Mississippi's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Mississippi is the 32nd largest and 35th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states and has the lowest per-capita income in the United States. Jackson is both the state's capital and largest city. Greater Jackson is the state's most populous metropolitan area, with a population of 591,978 in 2020. On December 10, 1817, Mississippi became the 20th state admitted to the Union. By 1860, Mississippi was the nation's top cotton-producing state and slaves accounted for 55% of the state population. Mississippi declared its secession from the Union on January 9, 1861, and was one of the seven original Confederate States, which constituted the largest slaveholding states in t ...
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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 ...
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Stacey E
Stacy or Stacey may refer to: Places In the United States: * Stacy, California, an unincorporated community * Stacy, Kentucky * Stacy, Minnesota, a city * Stacy, Virginia, a village People * Stacy (given name) * Stacy (singer) (born 1990), Malaysian singer, winner of the sixth season of ''Akademi Fantasia'' Surname * Alfred E. Stacey (1846–1940), American chair manufacturer and politician *Billy Stacy (1936–2019), American football player and politician * Brian Stacey (1946–1996), Australian conductor * Charles Perry Stacey (1906-1989), Canadian historian of 20th century Canada * Clyde Stacy (1936–2013), American singer * Enid Stacy (1868–1903), British activist * Francis Stacey (1830–1885), Welsh-born cricketer and law officer * George Stacey (footballer) (1881–1972), English footballer * George Stacey (1787–1857), Quaker abolitionist * Glenys Stacey (born 1954), British solicitor and civil servant * Jack Stacey (born 1996), English footballer * Jess S ...
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State Auditor Of Mississippi
The state auditor of Mississippi is an elected official in the executive branch of Government of Mississippi, Mississippi's state government. The duty of the state auditor is to ensure accountability in the use of funds appropriated by the state legislature by inspecting and reporting on the expenditure of the public funds. Shad White is the incumbent state auditor of Mississippi as of 2022. He assumed office on July 17, 2018. History of the office It has been an elected position since the 1832 Constitution of Mississippi, which specified a two-year term; prior to this, the state auditor was appointed annually by the governor of Mississippi. The 1868 Constitution expanded the term to four years. The fourth Constitution of Mississippi, ratified in 1890, made the state auditor ineligible to hold consecutive terms, and barred the state auditor and Mississippi State Treasurer, state treasurer from immediately succeeding each other. This measure was implemented as an effort to preve ...
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Byron Young (American Football, Born 2000)
Byron Young (born November 10, 2000) is an American football defensive tackle for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Alabama. Early years Young grew up in Laurel, Mississippi and attended West Jones High School. He committed to play football for the Alabama Crimson Tide. College career In his collegiate career, he totaled 130 tackles, 20 being for a loss, 7.5 sacks, 3 pass deflections, a forced fumble, and a recovery. His best collegiate year occurred in 2022 where he posted 48 tackles, 5.5 going for a loss, 4 sacks, 2 pass deflections, and a forced fumble. For his performance, he was named to the Second Team All-SEC. On January 5, 2023, Young declared for the 2023 NFL draft. Professional career Young was drafted by the Las Vegas Raiders in the third round, 70th overall, of the 2023 NFL Draft. He was placed on the physically unable to perform Physically unable to perform (PUP) is a roster designation used in the Nation ...
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Las Vegas Raiders
The Las Vegas Raiders are a professional American football team based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The Raiders compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division. The club plays its home games at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, and is headquartered in Henderson, Nevada. Founded on January 30, 1960, and originally based in Oakland, California, the Raiders played their first regular season game on September 11, 1960, as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL). They moved to the NFL with the AFL-NFL merger in 1970. The team departed Oakland to play in Los Angeles from the 1982 season through the 1994 season before returning to Oakland at the start of the 1995 season. On March 27, 2017, NFL team owners voted nearly unanimously to approve the Raiders' application to relocate to Las Vegas. Nearly three years later, on January 22, 2020, the Raiders moved to Las Vegas. T ...
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Public High Schools In Mississippi
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkeit'' or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, and suffered more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder. Etymology and definitions The name "public" originates with the Latin '' publicus'' (also '' poplicus''), from ''populus'', to the English word 'populace', and in general denotes some mass population ("the p ...
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Schools In Jones County, Mississippi
A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the '' Regional terms'' section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university. In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle school in the U.S.) education. Kindergarten or preschool provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University, vocational school, college or seminary may be ava ...
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