(USA Today) —
A Mississippi school board today ended a 30-year-old policy that dictated the race of class officers in a particular year. The old guidelines, which rotated candidates’ race each year, were intended to increase minority representation amid discrimination. “It is the belief of the current administration that these procedures were implemented to help ensure minority representation and involvement in the student body,” Nettleton Superintendent Russell Taylor said in a statement. “Therefore, beginning immediately, student elections at Nettleton School District will no longer have a classification of ethnicity. It is our intent that each student has equal opportunity to seek election for any student office.”
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