missouri education

A proposed Senate bill would block teachers from using a student's preferred name or pronouns.

Current law in Missouri requires schools to have a program if 3% of its students are identified as gifted, but it doesn't require screenings.

A law passed last year requiring clearer test score reports could be scrapped after Gov. Mike Kehoe’s budget dropped funding for the change.

Two Boone County lawmakers are pushing for agricultural-based education to be taught across Missouri.

Missouri public school students could see more agriculture-based science lessons starting in kindergarten through high school under bills prefiled in both state legislative chambers that would establish a new statewide program.

A Cole County judge has approved revised ballot language for a proposed Missouri constitutional amendment dealing with public education following a court challenge over how the measure is described to voters.

Columbia, Southern Boone, Hallsville schools all will be closed Tuesday because of the winter weather.

The score is a 2.2 percentage point increase from 2024, and it places the district among the top 15% of Missouri districts.

A new Missouri law requires certain school districts to get voter approval to start or continue the four-day week. The Independence School District, which is by far the state's largest district on the shortened week, will put the issue before voters on Nov. 4.

A new report from St. Louis University researchers found that many Black teachers in Missouri faced employment termination or other forms of classroom displacement as a result of integration between 1954 and 1970.