The appointed Superintendents from Humphreys County, Noxubee County and Yazoo County speak on teacher shortages, absenteeism and student population declines.

Superintendents from three of the four school districts currently under state control recently updated the Mississippi Board of Education about efforts to return those districts to local control.

Districts present for the update included Humphreys County School District represented by Dr. Stanley Ellis, Noxubee County School District represented by Dr. Washington Cole IV, and Yazoo City Municipal School District represented by Dr. Earl Watkins.

While there have been fluctuations over the years since each district was taken over by the Mississippi Department of Education, all three districts currently rank below at C rating on the s

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