public schools

The Missouri National Education Association hopes to stop the use of the state’s general revenue to fund private school scholarships

The legislation has a 12-year history in Missouri, with little movement until recently.

A Senate bill allowing homeschooled student participation in public and charter school activities and athletics passed the Missouri House on Wednesday.

Senate Democrats filibustered the Public School Open Enrollment Act, which would expand school choice in public schools.

The Senate Appropriations Committee boosted funding to the foundation formula and this week will finish amending the $48 billion spending plan approved in the Missouri House.

Property tax freeze for residents 62-plus likely to hit local education funding.

Missouri and Kansas public schools enroll thousands of fewer students compared to before the pandemic, in part, because of a homeschooling boom and declining birth rates.

Parents of transgender children are slamming a Missouri measure that would require public school students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that…

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is seeking a $50 million increase in basic aid to public schools.The details of Nixon's school funding proposal are included in an…

Republican floor leader John Diehl is hoping to add the statewide lottery to the 2016 ballot for a revote he announced Wednesday. Diehl wants to give the…