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West Lauderdale Middle School will have a new principal and assistant in the new school year.

He will be on campus during the last week of school to meet staff.

Graduate today; job seeker tomorrow

A rule under the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, the law used to determine public school funding, provides a complicated formula to determine whether a district has experienced an “inordinately large number of absences.” If it has, the district can receive funds based on the prior year’s average daily attendance figure. Specific figures are unclear, but many districts would stand to lose a substantial amount of money if numbers from this year are used — one reason why Wright is ...