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State Board Votes to Return Tunica County School District to Local Governance Effective July 1
June 21, 2024
JACKSON, Mississippi, June 21 -- The Mississippi State Board of Education issued the following news release on June 20, 2024:

The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted today to request an end to the state of emergency in the Tunica County School District (TCSD) and return the district to local community control.

The SBE has governed the TCSD since 2015, when it determined an extreme emergency existed in the district and asked the governor to declare a state . . .

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