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COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — The top administrator at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science said he will leave that job at the end of December, prompting a search for a new school leader.

Germain McConnell has been executive director of the residential high school in Columbus for eight years. On Jan. 1, he will become chief of staff for the Oxford School District.