Missouri School Boards Association

The legislation backed by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson will boost the minimum salary for teachers, change the formula for funding public schools and expands a tax-credit scholarship for private schools.

The state’s funding for school districts has remained relatively unchanged as inflation sped up in the past decade.

Amid a growing political divide, education advocates encourage parents and community members to engage with school boards in an effort to keep the focus on what’s best for students, rather than on the priorities of a select few.

The state school board association withdrew from its parent organization over a letter calling for action against “domestic terrorism."

There’s now a template for how in-class learning will look once schools reopen in Missouri. Complying with it all will require some complicated…

A Missouri law adopted four years ago to arm school staff was used for the first time this summer. It’s a step one school district took to increase…

A small number of rural Missouri school districts are allowing some teachers to carry concealed guns. Instead of following a state law that sets out how…

The director of Missouri’s Center for Education Safety wants the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to require all schools to have…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 18, 2011 - What does Missouri need to do to push its schools into the top tier nationwide?A new…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 1, 2011 - Missouri education officials have already modified their application for a waiver…