State takes over schools in aero-industry friendly Oktibbeha

The State of Mississippi is declaring an extreme emergency for East Oktibbeha High School and moving to remove the superintendent and take over the district school system following a third consecutive year of failing marks at EOHS. It will be the state’s first school to be taken over under the state’s New Start School Program. The county is home to a star-studded group of aerospace industries - Stark and GE Aerospace, Aurora Flight Sciences; American Eurocopter - and Mississippi State University’s Bagley College of Engineering of which the Raspert Flight Research Laboratory produces innovative and collaborative research, and undergraduate and graduate studies, for all sectors of industry throughout the region. Source: Jackson, Miss., Clarion Ledger, Sept. 28, 2012.