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Local students named to State Superintendent’s Student Advisory Council

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Four Long Beach High School (LBHS) students and one Pass Christian High School (PCHS) student are serving as representatives to the Mississippi State Superintendent’s Students Advisory Council (SAC). Newly-named LBHS students include Lexie Griffith, Henry Sawyer and Josiah Stephens, joining Jared Smith and PCHS student Kaelyn Welch.

The council consists of students in grades 11-12 or their first year of college.

The council consists of sixty-seven new members, which includes ten students who were semifinalists for the State Board of Education Junior Representative position. They will join forty-four students returning to the council from the previous school year.

All students come from different backgrounds, school size and regions in Mississippi and will be able to share their opinions and offer advice about educational opportunities and policy in Mississippi with Dr. Ray Morgigno, interim state superintendent of education.

Each fall, the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) opens applications for new members to the SAC. Students are required to write a compelling cover letter and provide answers to questions about their interest in the SAC, their accomplishments, educational concerns and academic goals.

The council’s purpose is to provide a forum for Mississippi’s students to offer diverse perspectives to the State Superintendent of Education. The students act as liaisons between MDE and public-school students from across the state. Council meetings are held three times during the school year.