Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
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Education
Commission recommends salary increases to address Missouri teacher shortage
A state commission Tuesday laid out its recommendations to improve teacher recruitment and retention in Missouri, including a push to…
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Education
Missouri student test scores still lag behind pre-pandemic levels
A day after preliminary test scores showed Missouri students’ performance on standardized tests have not bounced back from the pandemic,…
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Education
State commission told low pay, lack of support is fueling teacher shortage
Teachers, school administrators and advocacy groups on Wednesday laid out for a state commission a long list of grueling conditions…
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Education
Student literacy bill winning bipartisan support among Missouri lawmakers
What started as a bipartisan effort to improve Missouri’s literacy rates through a children’s book has evolved into legislation that…
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Education
Despite cost concerns, charter school funding boost still expected to advance
A week after senators celebrated a compromise to increase funding for charter schools, the estimated cost of the proposal stalled its progress…
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Education
Bills aim to ban out-of-school suspensions through third grade
As a student in Hickory County R-1 school district, state Rep. Ian Mackey often struggled with following the rules of…
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Education
Education officials planned to thank glitch-finding journalist, records show
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Just before Missouri Gov. Mike Parson condemned a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter for exposing a state database flaw,…
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Education
Missouri will offer teachers free credit monitoring after reporter found security flaw
Nearly a month after a reporter identified a security flaw in a state website that exposed teachers’ social security numbers,…
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News
Parson doubles down on push to prosecute reporter who found security flaw
Gov. Mike Parson escalated his war with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday when his political operation published a video doubling down…
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Education
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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Politics
Lawmaker urges Parson to finally appoint cybersecurity commission
A day after Missouri Gov. Mike Parson garnered national criticism for his push to prosecute a newspaper reporter who discovered a security…
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Education
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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Education
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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Education
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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Education
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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Education
Opponents of ‘critical race theory’ urge Missouri lawmakers to take action
A handful of parents pleaded with state lawmakers to take action on critical race theory in schools — an academic…
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