News Briefs
Hundreds of home-schoolers descended on the Missouri Capitol on May 14 to protest a measure that would require students to earn 16 credits before they can drop out of high school.
May 18, 2009
The high school dropout problem is getting better in some big cities where it’s most severe, a new study finds.
April 28, 2009
D. Kent King, a longtime superintendent who was Missouri's education commissioner for the past eight years, died Jan. 7.
January 21, 2009
The Missouri supreme court has affirmed the state takeover of the St. Louis school system.
January 6, 2009
Gov. Matt Blunt has signed into law measures that promise to boost state spending on schools, lessen some of the pain of property-tax increases, and create a new route into the teaching profession.
July 28, 2008
Legislature approves a $22.4 billion budget that includes an additional $130 million for K-12 education.
May 13, 2008
Educators are trying to combat a lack of referrals of English-language learners to special education in the state.
April 24, 2007
The plan would help underwrite initiatives in instructional technology, early-childhood education, and after-school programs.
January 30, 2007
The St. Louis school district begins the new year facing likely state intervention, following a task force’s proposal for the locally elected school board to be stripped of its authority and for an appointed board to run the system on an interim basis.
January 9, 2007
Upheaval in the highest ranks of the St. Louis public schools on the eve of a new academic year has prompted Missouri’s top education official to appoint a special committee to help fix the troubled district.
August 8, 2006
The debate over a school choice bill in the Missouri legislature has opened a bitter rift among some of the state’s top black elected officials.
May 2, 2006
In a move signaling the profound change in store for the St. Louis public schools, the superintendent has broken up the district’s most troubled high school in the middle of the year, creating a separate school for the freshmen and placing the most accomplished seniors on a college campus.
January 24, 2006
A principal’s decision to make a 4th grade girl move rocks as punishment, along with the subsequent firing of a teacher who helped the child, apparently has resulted in the departure of seven of the 10 teachers in Missouri’s tiny East Lynne school district.
June 7, 2005
Even with Utah’s adoption of vouchers for students with disabilities, and with enactment of school choice measures still plausible in Arizona and Ohio, 2005 hasn’t brought the strong showing that school choice supporters predicted it would.
June 7, 2005
Missouri lawmakers, looking to face down a legal challenge brought by more than half the school districts in the state, have voted to overhaul the school funding system for the first time in 12 years.
May 24, 2005
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