Missouri State Board of Education

School districts across the region say they are having difficulties covering classes as teachers and staff are out sick because of COVID-19. Some say Missouri should provide more flexibility to allow virtual learning.

The Missouri State Board of Education voted to allow Riverview Gardens School District and Normandy Schools Collaborative to have two locally elected members on their governing boards.

Missouri’s newest State Board of Education member, Kerry Casey, will be sworn in Dec. 7.

Community leaders have been upset with recent leadership decisions and lobbied the state board for changes.

The Leadership School won a charter from a divided state school board Thursday and plans to open as an elementary school in north St. Louis County next fall. It will be located somewhere within the boundaries of the provisionally accredited Normandy school district.

Essential workers don't have to quarantine as long as they don't have symptoms. Declaring teachers essential would keep them in classrooms even after having close contact with someone who has COVID-19.

The Missouri State Board of Education will relax attendance rules next year so school districts still get paid if they opt for hybrid instruction models.

For years, the state's tourism industry pushed for a later first day of school. Now schools are asking to start sooner than Aug. 24 in case they have to close for COVID-19 again.

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