{"id":3461,"date":"2025-04-21T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T19:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdek12.org\/communications\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2025-04-25T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:54:19","slug":"state-board-of-education-selects-semifinalists-for-2025-26-state-board-student-rep-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdek12.org\/communications\/2025\/04\/21\/state-board-of-education-selects-semifinalists-for-2025-26-state-board-student-rep-program\/","title":{"rendered":"State Board of Education selects semifinalists for 2025-26 State Board Student Rep Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEWS RELEASE
\n<\/strong>For Immediate Release: \u00a0April 21, 2025<\/p>\n

State Board of Education selects semifinalists for 2025-26 State Board Student Rep Program<\/strong><\/p>\n

JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) has selected 10 semifinalists for the SBE junior student representative in the 2025-26 school year.<\/p>\n

The SBE student representative program includes one high school junior and one high school senior who serve as non-voting SBE members and provide input on policy decisions that affect Mississippi public schools. The current junior SBE representative, Crosby Parker of Gulfport High School, will serve as the senior representative in 2025-26.<\/p>\n

The eligible applicant pool for the rising junior representative included 30 students.<\/p>\n

SBE student representatives are responsible for attending monthly SBE meetings and any standing committees or subcommittees to which they are assigned. Student representatives are excused from school to attend SBE meetings as official school business.<\/p>\n

The SBE adopted a policy in 2018 outlining the criteria for adding student representatives to the State Board.<\/p>\n

Semifinalists will be interviewed and up to four finalists will be named. The SBE will interview the finalists and appoint one rising junior.<\/p>\n

The 10 semifinalists are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/strong><\/td>\nDistrict<\/strong><\/td>\nSchool<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Isaiah Barbour<\/td>\nTupelo School District<\/td>\nTupelo High School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amy Choi<\/td>\nStarkville Oktibbeha School District<\/td>\nStarkville High School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Katie Chung<\/td>\nStarkville Oktibbeha School District<\/td>\nStarkville High School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Price Denham<\/td>\nLamar County School District<\/td>\nOak Grove High School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thad Garner<\/td>\nChickasaw County School District<\/td>\nHouston High School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Avani Pacharne<\/td>\nStarkville Oktibbeha School District<\/td>\nStarkville High School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Abigail Ratcliffe<\/td>\nGulfport School District<\/td>\nGulfport High School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Angelina Tan<\/td>\nStarkville Oktibbeha School District<\/td>\nStarkville High School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hayes Tyler<\/td>\nKosciusko School District<\/td>\nKosciusko High School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michelle Xie<\/td>\nLamar County School District<\/td>\nOak Grove High School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\nPublic Information Officer
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NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: \u00a0April 21, 2025 State Board of Education selects semifinalists for 2025-26 State Board Student Rep Program JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) has selected 10 semifinalists for the SBE junior student representative in the 2025-26 school year. The SBE student representative program includes one high school […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}