Education
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Data breach prompts review at Missouri teacher pension fund
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Officials with the pension fund serving teachers and other public school employees in Missouri say they’re…
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Schools with low test scores can have high student growth, report finds
Schools with a low percentage of students reaching proficient and advanced levels on Missouri standardized tests are also among the…
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Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
On Tuesday, a reporter with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch alerted the state that Social Security numbers of school teachers and administrators…
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Four trends in public school enrollment due to COVID-19
When schools began the fall semester of 2020 – six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic – many…
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Democrats’ vision for free community college would boost undocumented students
WASHINGTON — The massive economic policy package Democrats are trying to muscle through Congress could open the door to free…
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Missouri schools adapt as labor shortages upend meal supply chain
Shawndra Taylor had just 12 hours’ notice when the first truck canceled. It was to have contained food to help…
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Judge rejects Missouri attorney general’s challenge to school mask mandates
Face masks will stay on for students and teachers in districts requiring them, a Boone County judge ruled Tuesday, handing…
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Missouri HBCUs use federal relief funds to clear pandemic-related student debt
Harris-Stowe State University junior De’Ketra Tatum remembers listening to a lecture in February 2020 about what could happen if the…
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Missouri is exploring a ‘test to stay’ school quarantine option
With thousands of students quarantined in the first weeks of the new school year, Missouri’s health director says the state…
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Missouri AG’s push to sue every school with mask mandate heads to court next week
Orders requiring school children to wear masks in class will be tested in court next week, when a Boone County…
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New state health director says ‘masks work’ as COVID cases rise, school in session
As the fight over mask mandates in schools continues, and the state’s attorney general wages lawsuits to block them, Missouri’s…
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Amid the pandemic, Missouri standardized test scores declined across grades, subjects
Preliminary results from Missouri statewide assessment tests administered last spring amid the pandemic show scores declined across nearly all grade…
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Missouri schools with lower state funding had higher rates of gun violence
Christian Rich has seen more death and violence at age15 than many experience in a lifetime. His best friend, cousin,…
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Study finds that SLU’s face mask policy reduced quarantines, COVID cases
Tying quarantine requirements to the Saint Louis University face mask requirement successfully reduced the number of students sent to isolation…
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Many Black families who chose homeschooling because of COVID-19 are sticking with it
Every homeschool family kicks off their school year a little differently. For the Browns, they decided to start with an…
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Town of Sikeston now at center of COVID surge in Missouri
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The epicenter of Missouri’s COVID-19 outbreak has shifted to the state’s southeast, and no place is…
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Thousands get COVID in first weeks of school in Missouri
Thousands of Missouri children have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the new school year began, and at least one rural…
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Missouri launches Office of Childhood to expand services for children, families
Missouri’s new Office of Childhood officially launched Monday with a mission to transform the landscape of early childhood in the state for…
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With schools in session, doctors fear new child COVID wave
Children are making up an increasing number of patients filling Missouri hospitals during the summer COVID-19 surge, and some doctors…
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Federal Pell Grant program will now help prisoners work on college degrees
WASHINGTON — Prison inmates around the U.S. are getting the chance to do something that was almost unheard of a…
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Biden opens civil rights probe into states banning school mask mandates
WASHINGTON — Federal education officials have launched civil rights investigations in five Republican-led states that have prohibited school districts from mandating…
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What Missouri learned the hard way about rapid COVID testing in schools
Early in the tumultuous 2020-21 school year, Missouri officials made a big gamble: set aside roughly 1 million rapid COVID…
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More COVID-19 shots, studies offer hope for schools
WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials offered new hope for the safety of U.S. schoolchildren threatened by COVID-19 on Friday as Gulf…
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Schools to continue mask rules despite legal challenge from Missouri Attorney General
The schools in Gov. Mike Parson’s hometown will continue to require students, teachers and staff to wear masks indoors despite…
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Missouri attorney general seeks court order blocking school mask mandates
Mandates that require children, staff and faculty to wear masks in school to prevent spread of COVID-19 are next on…
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St. Louis Public Schools to require vaccinations for employees
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Public Schools will require COVID-19 vaccinations for employees, giving them until Oct. 15 to…
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Some governors use federal virus aid to expand school choice
When Congress sent states billions of dollars early in the coronavirus pandemic to help make schools safe, Tennessee Gov. Bill…
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Advocates urge lawmakers to focus on inequity in education, not critical race theory
Educators, students and advocates urged state lawmakers Monday afternoon to focus on tackling larger issues of inequity across education rather…
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As Missouri students head back to class, state launches new COVID testing program
Monday marked the first day of school for thousands of students across Missouri, and it’s also when schools could begin…
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Who has the power to say students do or don’t have to wear masks?
Legal battles over masks in schools are being fought across the country. Rather than clarifying policy, these legal challenges have…
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