Education

The budget bill that includes grants to pay for teacher raises will only cover the next school year, are optional and require the districts to pay for part of the raise.

Brittany Green was one of more than 100 teachers in Illinois nominated for the award. The honor comes with $10,000 for the school and for Green to use toward professional development.

Aerospace engineering major Dillon Ruble is graduating and on his way to work for Boeing, but not before he tries to be the best in the world at designing, folding and throwing a paper airplane.

The school district in south St. Louis County may be the first public district in Missouri to add the celebration to its calendar.

Administrators for St. Louis Public Schools and charter schools plan to distribute gun locks to ensure that gun owners keep their weapons out of students’ hands.

A new review from the National Education Association teachers union found Missouri teachers are near the bottom in pay by multiple measures.

Schools can’t do much about bullying on Instagram because many Missouri school districts base their anti-bullying policies on a state law that uses a 2007 definition for cyberbullying, which makes no mention of social media.

The nine-member Board of Curators has seven graduates from the flagship campus in Columbia and none from UMSL, UMKC and Missouri S&T combined. During a meeting last week in Rolla, the curators made changes to the pension system.

“To be honest, I was in complete denial,” the superintendent said. “It just never sunk in what I was really facing.”

The Innovation Lab is the first of several new buildings on the Rolla campus funded in part by a $300 million donation from an alumnus.