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06.30.2009 1:30 pm

Missouri commissioner of education to be announced Thursday

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Missouri state board of education announced today that it will hold a news conference Thursday morning to introduce the state’s new commissioner of education.

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has asked former commissioners of education, members of the…

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03.09.2009 4:01 pm

State board begins search for new commissioner

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The state board of education’s committee to search for a new education commissioner will meet for the first time at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Jefferson City.

The board hopes to select a new commissioner by mid-summer to replace D. Kent King…

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01.07.2009 4:42 pm

Missouri leaders remember Kent King, the state’s top education official

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Leaders from across the state remembered D. Kent King, Missouri’s education commissioner, today:

“I just never saw him down; he was always cheerful. He never retreated from anything. He fought this illness for such a long time, very courageously.” - Jean…

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01.07.2009 2:18 pm

Kent King, Missouri commissioner of education, is dead

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

D. Kent King, the state’s top education official, has died.

This note went out early this afternoon, from the department he oversaw, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, in Jefferson City:

From: DESE Public Information
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:34 PM
To:…

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