Missouri School District News

Parents should not need a degree in education policy or a spreadsheet full of state data to understand whether their child’s school is working. Schools are not in the dark about their performance. Student growth,...

Keisha Seymour and Courtney Moulder, who met in high school in the ’90s and traversed the country separately while building their educational careers, didn’t plan to return to their Missouri hometown and team up to save...

Kindergarten teacher Wittney Swyers knew it was impossible when her colleagues said her students should be entering first grade prepared to write sentences independently. That was roughly a decade ago, when the...

Missouri has spent the last several years overhauling its approach to teaching reading. State leaders have invested millions in teacher training, evidence-based instruction, literacy screening and interventions for...

St. Louis Public Schools was one of America’s largest school systems in the late-1960s, educating 115,000 students at its peak. But at the beginning of the 2026–27 academic year, after decades of erosion and poor...

After years of frustration and spurious claims that it is destroying public education, the charter school movement is nearing a tipping point when it comes to equitably accessing the local resources from which it has...

All summer, Dr. Marvia Jones worried over the data. Jones, director of the Kansas City Health Department in Missouri, read reports showing that not enough public school students were up-to-date with their vaccinations...

Missouri’s largest charter-school sponsor entered August with nearly $3.3 million in its account, which is more than twice what it spent in the previous fiscal year. Now the Missouri Charter Public School Commission is...

Missouri education officials are preparing to ask lawmakers for roughly $300 million more for public schools next year, setting up a potentially difficult budget fight as the state faces a projected revenue shortfall....

The U.S. Department of Justice found the district routinely violated its own policies and Missouri law when it relied on seclusion and restraint as a regular practice, rather than a final resort. The post DOJ probe...

The Missouri State Board of Education is expected to vote on the accreditation statuses of over 500 districts across the state next year. The post St Louis-area school districts are losing students. A new task force...

Kansas City-based Frontier Schools is on track to open Columbia’s first charter school in the fall of 2027. At this point, Frontier Schools has hired a contractor and is looking for possible locations for the charter...

The "Future Ready SLPS" report outlines an overhaul of the city’s public school system in the face of decades of declining enrollment and ballooning costs of salaries, benefits and transportation along with aging...

As more discussions about supplying adequate, affordable childcare are had across the state, childcare centers continue to struggle with staff retention. Beth Ann Lang, deputy chief executive officer of Child Care Aware...

Some appreciate the legal backup for teachers’ cellphone policies and say students are socializing more. Others think the ban goes too far. The post A year into Missouri’s ban on cellphones in school, opinions are...