A bill requiring public schools screen all students to determine if they qualify for gifted education by the time they reach the third grade passed the Missouri House on a 142-8 vote Monday. It bolsters a state law requiring schools to provide gifted classes when at least 3% of its students are identified as gifted. […]
A law passed last year to add a measure for grade-level equivalency as part of Missouri’s standardized test reports may be scrapped as a casualty of the state’s budgetary woes. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education requested $1 million to add grade-level equivalency to the Missouri Assessment Program, which would largely be a one-time […]
Kristen Price, a teacher at the Northwest R-1 School District’s Early Childhood Center, was one of 34 educators recently named Missouri Region…
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education recently named Greg Kester of Festus the state’s 2024 Teacher of the Year.
De Soto and Festus school officials recently got welcome news that their districts received state School Safety Grant program grants to fund s…
The Hillsboro R-3 Board of Education recently recognized the Hillsboro High School counseling staff for winning the Gysbers Missouri Comprehen…
Rockwood School District officials have chosen Timothy Ricker, a retired superintendent, to lead the district for one year starting July 1.
Missouri students and teachers are no longer required to quarantine for 14 days if they were exposed to someone who has tested positive for CO…
Jefferson County children will be out of school longer than originally anticipated.
Two area teachers were named by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education as 2017-18 Regional Teachers of the Year as part of the M…