{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-37-153-13","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 37-153-13","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 37-153-13","body":"The Mississippi Community College Board, in collaboration with the Office of Workforce Development, is designated as the primary support agency to the workforce development centers. The Mississippi Community College Board, in collaboration with the Office of Workforce Development, may exercise the following powers:\n\n(a) To provide the workforce development centers the assistance necessary to accomplish the purposes of this article;\n\n(b) To provide the workforce development centers consistent standards and benchmarks to guide development of the local workforce development system and to provide a means by which the outcomes of local services can be measured;\n\n(c) To develop the staff capacity to provide, broker or contract for the provision of technical assistance to the workforce development centers, including, but not limited to:\n\n(i) Training local staff in methods of recruiting, assessment and career counseling;\n\n(ii) Establishing rigorous and comprehensive local preemployment training programs;\n\n(iii) Developing local institutional capacity to deliver total quality management training;\n\n(iv) Developing local institutional capacity to transfer new technologists into the marketplace;\n\n(v) Expanding the Skills Enhancement Program and improving the quality of adult literacy programs; and\n\n(vi) Developing data for strategic planning;\n\n(d) To collaborate with the Mississippi Development Authority, Office of Workforce Development, individual community and junior colleges, and other economic development and educational organizations and political subdivisions to increase the economic development potential and the state's labor force participation rate;\n\n(e) To administer presented and approved certification programs by the community colleges for tax credits and partnership funding for corporate training;\n\n(f) To create and maintain an evaluation team that examines which kinds of curricula and programs and what forms of quality control of training are most productive so that the knowledge developed at one (1) institution of education can be transferred to others;\n\n(g) To develop internal capacity to provide services and to contract for services from universities and other providers directly to local institutions;\n\n(h) To develop and administer an incentive certification program;\n\n(i) To develop and hire staff and purchase equipment necessary to accomplish the goals set forth in this section; and\n\n(j) To collaborate, partner and contract for services with community-based organizations and disadvantaged businesses in the delivery of workforce training and career information especially to youth, as defined by the federal Workforce Investment Act, and to those adults who are in low income jobs or whose individual skill levels are so low as to be unable initially to be aided by a workforce development center. Community-based organizations and disadvantaged businesses must meet performance-based certification requirements set by the Mississippi Community College Board, in collaboration with the Office of Workforce Development.","path":["MS Code","Title 37"],"source_url":"https://legislature.ms.gov/","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T20:49:39Z","sha256":"ad297682fb5d598de6d3935c79892d7885577e43c2fe44a70221e865d45db407","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-37-153-11","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-37-153-15","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}