Section 7-34-A-300.28 - Local educational agency (LEA)(a)General. Local educational agency or LEA means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within Mississippi for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of the State, or for a combination of school districts or counties as are recognized in the State as an administrative agency for its public elementary schools or secondary schools.(b)Educational service agencies and other public institutions or agencies. The term includes- (1) An educational service agency as defined in §300.12; and(2) Any other public institution or agency having administrative control and direction of a public elementary school or secondary school, including a public nonprofit charter school that is established as an LEA under State law.(c)Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) funded schools. BIA funded schools include an elementary school or secondary school funded by the BIA, and not subject to the jurisdiction of any SEA other than the BIA, but only to the extent that the inclusion makes the school eligible for programs for which specific eligibility is not provided to the school in another provision of law and the school does not have a student population that is smaller than the student population of the LEA receiving assistance under IDEA with the smallest student population.7 Miss. Code. R. 34-A-300.28