Series: 48 Education Reform Act Files. 1979-1982. Records of the Office of the Governor (RG 27)

Records relating to the Education Reform Act, including information gathered about the cost of maintaining public kindergartens, correspondence, speeches made before the legislature, and newspaper clippings. The Mississippi Education Reform Act of 1982 established compulsory school attendance, created state-funded kindergartens, increased teacher pay, authorized the hiring of teaching assistants and truant officers, and implemented a statewide testing program for performance-based accreditation of public schools. The reforms were funded by increases in the state’s sales tax and corporate and individual income taxes.