By VERNON SIKES
Herald Correspondent

The message could not have been any clearer: either get your act together, or we’ll take over your school district.
Dr. Laura Jones, of the Mississippi State Department of Education (MSDE), appeared Thursday during the Yazoo City School Board meeting to emphasize the severity of the school district’s ratings.
“Unfortunately, I’m here again tonight because we are in the second year of the New Start School Law with the high school,” Jones began.
Passed in 2010, the New Start School Law requires that if a school stays in the failing category for three years in a row, that individual school can be taken over by the state.
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Claire Moore tries to hide her excitement as she shares a secret with her friend Aimee Katherine Alexander on a hay ride during a field trip for Benton Academy kindergarten students Wednesday.

By JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor

It’s been nine months, but the owners of a Madison Street property are still asking for more time to remove their belongings from a condemned house.
But city leaders said enough is enough.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen are moving forward with demolishing a dilapidated house on Madison Street in Yazoo City.
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The Yazoo County Sheriff’s Department and the Department of Human Services are investigating a case in which a child suffered potentially life threatening injuries.
Deputies traveled the intersection at U.S. Highway 49 and Anding-Oil City Road Wednesday around 5 p.m. to block traffic so the helicopter could land to transport the child to University Medical Center in Jackson.
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