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Governor:Phil Bryant
State Superintendent of Education:Tom Burnham
Quality Counts state grade:C-
Pre-K-12 enrollment:490,526
Number of school districts:152
Number of public schools:1,083
Number of public school teachers:32,255
Unadjusted education spending per student:$8,104
Percent minority students:54.0%
Percent of students eligible for free/reduced price lunch:70.5%
Percent of students with disabilities:13.0%
Percent of English-language learners:1.1%
NAEP Mathematics 2011 percent proficient
4th grade math:25.1%
8th grade math:19.3%
NAEP Reading 2011 percent proficient
4th grade reading:21.8%
8th grade reading:21.0%

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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have wreaked highly visible havoc on schools in the Gulf Coast region, but their impact in a more esoteric realm—school districts’ bonded debt—is just becoming clear. The picture that emerges could say a lot about those districts’ prospects for recovery.
December 6, 2005 - Education Week
The U.S. Education Department’s hurricane-relief Web site has attracted donors providing everything from textbooks and backpacks full of school supplies, to educational software and cash.
December 6, 2005 - Education Week (Web)
Now that almost all of the school districts that suffered damage from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have reopened, their leaders are scrambling to find the money to keep the districts solvent.
November 15, 2005 - Education Week
Devastated Gulf Coast districts have begun reopening schools and re-employing teachers who were displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. But with student-enrollment numbers changing daily, many administrators remain uncertain about how many teachers and other staff members they will need, at least initially.
November 15, 2005 - Education Week
Thousands of Louisiana students who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina may not have enrolled in school anywhere, according to the state schools chief, and Louisiana is hard-pressed to keep track of students who have dispersed to almost every state in the country.
October 25, 2005 - Education Week
From elementary pupils cracking open their piggy banks to companies and foundations writing seven-figure checks, a flood of donations has reached schools and students affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which devastated parts of the Gulf Coast and the coast of Texas.
October 25, 2005 - Education Week
The Department of Education’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights has spent part of every week in Mississippi ever since Hurricane Katrina swept across the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29.
October 18, 2005 - Education Week
After Hurricane Katrina flattened schools along the Gulf Coast and floodwaters swirled into classrooms, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did something it had never done before: It created strike teams of education experts to help schools in Louisiana and Mississippi.
October 11, 2005 - Education Week
House Republican education leaders released a proposal last week that they say would help schools and districts affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita by easing a number of federal restrictions.
October 11, 2005 - Education Week
The debate in Congress over the Bush administration’s idea of providing private school vouchers as part of its hurricane-relief efforts is heading in a new direction.
October 4, 2005 - Education Week

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