Editing Bolivar County, Mississippi (section)

===Public School Districts===
School districts:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st28_ms/schooldistrict_maps/c28011_bolivar/DC20SD_C28011.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512221234/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st28_ms/schooldistrict_maps/c28011_bolivar/DC20SD_C28011.pdf |archive-date=May 12, 2021 |url-status=live|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Bolivar County, MS|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=July 18, 2022}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st28_ms/schooldistrict_maps/c28011_bolivar/DC20SD_C28011_SD2MS.txt Text list] - In 2020 there were three school districts</ref>
* [[Cleveland School District]] (Cleveland)
* [[North Bolivar Consolidated School District]] (Mound Bayou; previously in Shelby)
* [[West Bolivar Consolidated School District]] (Rosedale, Shaw, and Benoit)

Former school districts:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/sch_dist/st28_ms/c28011_bolivar/DC10SD_C28011_001.pdf|title=SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Bolivar County, MS|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=July 18, 2022}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/sch_dist/st28_ms/c28011_bolivar/DC10SD_C28011_SD2MS.txt Text list] - In 2010 there were six school districts</ref>
* [[Benoit School District]] (Benoit)
* [[Mound Bayou School District]] (Mound Bayou)
* [[Shaw School District]] (Shaw)

The five school districts other than the Cleveland School District, were, in 2012, among the 20 smallest of the 152 school districts in the State of Mississippi.<ref name="Amy1">Amy, Jeff. "[http://www.chron.com/default/article/Bill-forces-merger-of-Bolivar-school-districts-3386703.php Bill forces merger of Bolivar school districts]{{dead link|date=July 2016}}." ''[[Associated Press]]'' at the ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. Tuesday March 6, 2012. Retrieved on March 25, 2012. [http://themississippilink.com/2012/03/08/bill-forces-merger-of-bolivar-school-districts/ Archive link at] ''[[The Mississippi Link]]''</ref> In the State of Mississippi, Bolivar County was the only county that had six school districts.<ref name="Amy2">Amy, Jeff. "[http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/42e6d4d50a2f45cfaa0af5d51e936cb7/MS-XGR--School-Consolidation/ Miss. bill would force 6 Bolivar County school districts to merge into 3 or fewer]{{dead link|date=July 2016}}." ''[[The Republic (Columbus, Indiana)|The Republic]]''. March 14, 2012. Retrieved on March 24, 2012.</ref> Consolidation was urged to save money and facilitate cooperation. In 2012 the [[Mississippi Senate]] Education Committee passed a bill asking the State of Mississippi to consolidate the six school districts in Bolivar County to three or two.<ref name="Amy1"/> The Mississippi Senate passed the bill 37–11.<ref name="Amy2"/>

As recently as the 1960s the school board of Bolivar County censored what black children were allowed to learn, and mandated that "Neither foreign languages nor civics shall be taught in Negro schools. Nor shall American history from 1860 to 1875 be taught.”<ref>Carmichael, Stokely; Michael Thelwell (2003). ''Ready for Revolution''. Scribner.</ref>