MS SB2307

Requires trustees of municipal separate school districts and special municipal separate school districts to be elected by qualified voters from five special trustee election districts, beginning with the June 2013 municipal elections and every four years thereafter

School boards must apportion their districts into five trustee election districts of approximately equal population and submit new district boundaries for federal preclearance under the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Mandates that all school superintendents be appointed by school boards rather than elected, effective January 1, 2016, unless an incumbent county superintendent of education serving on July 1, 2013, chooses to seek reelection

Standardizes petition requirements for school board candidates at 50 signatures from qualified electors (or 20% if fewer than 100 electors in the district), filed at least 60 days before the election

Repeals multiple existing code sections governing various methods for selecting trustees and county superintendents of education, including referendum provisions on retaining elected superintendents