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Below the overview of the district are links to KBIA's coverage of Columbia 93 district schools, updated as more stories are published. Columbia 93 at a glanceThe Columbia 93 school district currently includes 32 different schools. In 2014, the district had a k-12 enrollment of 17,204 students, which is 2% of the total k-12 enrollment for the state. Enrollment has been slightly increasing in recent years, 2% since 2011. While a small percent, that amounts to almost 400 more students. There have also been major re-drawing of attendance areas with the addition of Battle High School. Middle school attendance areas shape high school boundaries 00000178-cc7d-da8b-a77d-ec7d2f9e0000The changes have affected all schools in the district, including causing high school attendance to increase and overcrowding at one middle school at least.

Lawsuit Filed Against Columbia Public Schools for "Bargaining in Bad Faith"

Hickman High School
Meiying Wu / KBIA

The Columbia School Board did not meet the demands of the Columbia Missouri National Education Association during recent negotiations over salary, benefits and other issues, a lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges.

Association President Kathy Steinhoff took the floor at last week’s School Board meeting in an attempt to persuade the board to continue to exclusively bargain with the association as the recognized representative of Columbia Public Schools’ teachers.

The lawsuit asks the court to protect individual teachers’ and the association’s collective bargaining rights under Article I, Section 29 of the Missouri Constitution and bar the district from acting in bad faith by demanding that the association agree to take action prohibited by court order, according to a news release from the Missouri National Education Association.

To read more on this story, visit our partners at the Columbia Missourian.