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The Jobs for Mississippi Graduates (JMG) Program has offered grants to school districts to extend the program into both high school and Middle school/junior high school sites. This provides the Simpson County School District with an opportunity to possibly receive JMG positions at Magee High School, Magee Middle School, Mendenhall Junior High, and Simpson Central School at no cost to the district for the 2015-16 school year.
Robert Sanders, Head Principal at Mendenhall High School, initially referred this opportunity to the county office. Sanders has already established a program during the past school year which continues at no charge to the district through December of 2015. He has requested and the School Board has agreed to reserve 1/2 of the $25,000 fee to continue the program in the 2015-16 budget for the entirety of next year.
The Simpson County School Board authorized additional Memorandum of Understanding protocols for each of the schools listed that do not currently have JMG program. The Board extended the JMG program for Mendenhall High through next year at an estimated cost to the district of $12,500.
JMG is a non profit, dropout program that was launched in 1993. The mission of JMG is to educate, expose, equip, and empower students to obtain successful outcomes in life.
JMG provides mentorship of program participants, educate via remediation, tutoring, teach employability skills curriculum, expose students to careers and college via field trips, guest speakers, conferences, stress parental involvement and provide referral services.
Characteristics of youth served by this program: have below average test scores; have excessive number of absences; have been suspended, put on probation, expelled at least two times; economically disadvantaged (living below poverty line); product of a singe parent home or foster care; or have parents who are not high school graduates.
The cost of the JMG program is $0.00 if all requirements of the JMG are met by the school.
The board agreed to support the JMG program at the Thursday night, June 11, 2015 meeting.
