By JORDAN SHAPIRO (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is asking the Legislature for $10 million for Lincoln University to acquire and renovate a soon-to-be vacant hospital… Read more »
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KC coalition releases plan for improving schools
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — The Kansas City school district has released a school-improvement plan that was developed with a local coalition. The plan’s submission Tuesday to the State Board… Read more »
Mo. supers offer student-transfer woes solution
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A group of school superintendents has developed an alternative to a Missouri law that allows students to transfer from unaccredited to accredited districts. The Kansas… Read more »
Warrensburg Schools Foundation announces online raffle
The Warrensburg Schools Foundation announces an online raffle to see CMA New Artist of the Year Hunter Hayes in concert and benefit the Partners in Progress project to update the… Read more »
Nixon seeks full funding for public schools
By CHRIS BLANK (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon says he wants to provide full funding for public schools by the time he leaves office in January… Read more »
Kansas City schools remain unaccredited
By CHRIS BLANK (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Kansas City’s public schools haven’t seen sufficient or long enough improvement to upgrade its accreditation, Missouri’s State Board of Education president said… Read more »
Consultants for KC schools temper expectations
By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — The consultants hired by Missouri to recommend ways of improving Kansas City schools are tempering expectations — noting that improvement is… Read more »
States enact laws to stock epinephrine at schools
By LUCAS L. JOHNSON II (NASHVILLE, Tenn., AP) — When a third-grade student who had been stung by a wasp developed welts on his neck and had trouble breathing, school… Read more »