Education

Students returned to class at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis City yesterday for the first time since a deadly shooting closed the school last October.Evan Holden is a student at the University of Missouri who graduated from the St. Louis Public School District, and his mom, Colette Morton is still a literature teacher there. They sat down recently and spoke about how the reality of school-based gun violence has impacted their relationship.

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education voted Tuesday to recommend a proposed teacher pay increase to $38,000.

National reports show students have fallen behind academically at historic levels due to the COVID-19 pandemic–with disproportionate effects on students of color. Some people in mid-Missouri are working to reverse that trend.

Kate Sandefur spoke with the Missouri on Mic team at the Adair County Public Library in May. She’s a librarian and a former pre-school teacher and spoke about how the pandemic led to her and some other local parents starting Prairie Song Academy, a Kirksville area Montessori-based school.

Missouri has dozens of options when it comes to higher education. But as KBIA’s Kassidy Arena reports, many of them are not quite reaching Hispanic and Latino students. In the fourth installment of the ¿Dónde está mi gente? series, you’ll hear what’s being done to draw in those students and what hasn’t been happening.

The University of Missouri says it has disciplined an additional 20 current or former students with suspensions, probation and other sanctions for what it…

Missouri is temporarily relaxing requirements to become a certified substitute teacher.Substitute teachers used to need sixty college credit hours to get…

In-person summer school is canceled for Columbia Public Schools students this year, Superintendent Peter Stiepleman announced Thursday at a Columbia…

After being approved at the Columbia City Council meeting April 15, certain schools can now have more than six chickens on their property. The amendment…

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri lawmakers passed bills during a special session Friday aimed at expanding courts for people struggling with addiction in the…