Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Federal funding will help pay for the statewide initiative to keep kids in class this summer and help make up for pandemic-related learning loss.

This year is part of a “transition” as Missouri education officials update the state’s accountability program for schools.

After a reporter identified a security flaw that exposed teachers’ social security numbers, Missouri said it would offer credit monitoring.

After personal information for thousands of educators in Missouri was shown to be vulnerable due to a website flaw, a Washington University professor sees this as an opportunity for the state to reevaluate its cybersecurity practices.

Missouri’s Board of Education approved a new emergency amendment to give prospective substitute teachers the option to take a 20-hour online certification course to address a statewide substitute teacher shortage.

Missouri governor demanded the investigation of a journalist who alerted the state to a website security flaw, pegging the cost to the state at $50 million. Democrats say that number is unrealistic, and it’s not clear what the money would be used for.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch discovered a flaw that exposed Social Security numbers for more than 100,000 Missouri teachers and alerted the state before publishing its findings, but the state is calling the act an unauthorized hack.

Advocates said the groundwork for the office’s launch has been years in the making and will be a chance to transform the early childhood landscape.

Missouri’s ambitious school testing plan landed with a thud. What it can teach us now about keeping the delta variant out of classrooms.

Former educators said they have never encountered the teaching of critical race theory in their classes.