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The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) is moving forward with fully implementing new standards in Missouri’s K-12 schools for…
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State and local-level school officials would be required to develop guidelines for teaching evolution under legislation making its way through the…
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A new spending plan for K-12 education in Missouri is now law.Gov. Jay Nixon signed the education budget last night at a Kansas City-area Boys State…
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Missouri lawmakers have wrapped up the 2012 legislative session. They passed 115 bills this year, nearly 50 of them on the final day alone. But as St.…
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The Missouri Senate is wrestling with legislation that would tweak the state’s public school funding formula.The bill is pitting rural and suburban…
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The Missouri Senate has endorsed legislation that could allow charter schools to be formed outside of Kansas City and St. Louis.In a voice vote Wednesday,…
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The Missouri House has passed all 13 bills that make up the state’s $24 billion budget for FY 2013.The process took longer than expected, because of the…
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Governor Jay Nixon (D) has released an additional $5 million withheld from this year’s K-12 and Higher Education budgets.The Nixon Administration says $3…
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Legislation that’s designed to stop a potential mass exodus of students from unaccredited schools in St. Louis and Kansas City to nearby suburban schools…
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The 2012 Missouri legislative session is underway, and much of the first-day talk revolved around the challenges facing the state’s public schools.In…