Dual-Track school awaits Columbus participation

MAYHEW, Miss. (AP) — The inaugural ninth-grade class of no more than 50 students at the Early College High School in Mayhew is scheduled to start this fall.

But the Columbus school system has not signed a memorandum of agreement with the new school.

The project is a partnership among East Mississippi Community College, Mississippi State University and the Mississippi Department of Education. The school will be located at EMMC's Mayhew campus.

Columbus Schools Superintendent Philip Hickman told WCBI-TV in Columbus (http://bit.ly/1IPyDeQ ) that there are legal questions about transportation and ambiguous language about services to be paid for.