Missouri State Board of Education

The Missouri State Board of Education will relax attendance rules next year so school districts still get paid if they opt for hybrid instruction models.

For years, the state's tourism industry pushed for a later first day of school. Now schools are asking to start sooner than Aug. 24 in case they have to close for COVID-19 again.

Missouri has an updated rubric for measuring whether school districts are educating kids the way they should be.The State Board of Education approved the…

Updated Jan. 9 with information about teacher recruitment effortsMissouri education officials have a handful of ideas on how to get more people interested…

Only nine of Missouri’s 518 public school districts lack full accreditation from the State Board of Education. But some of those districts have been there…

The Missouri State Board of Education took steps Tuesday toward putting more counselors and support staff in the state’s public schools.Counselors in…

Riverview Gardens will remain a provisionally accredited school district, after the Missouri State Board of Education declined to vote on its petition for…

Low pay is the top reason teachers leave the classroom, a new survey of Missouri public school educators found.The state’s Department of Elementary and…

State education leaders are returning governance of the St. Louis public school system back to an elected school board and ending 12 years of…

The Missouri state school board sent strong signals to leadership of St. Louis Public Schools Tuesday it will end its 12-year oversight of the district…