Missouri community college students will pay the same tuition next year that they did this year, according to a plan again brokered by Gov. Jay Nixon.

Presidents of the state’s public two-year schools have agreed for the second year in a…

The State Board of Education voted yesterday to join the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a national project to establish more consistent academic standards in English and math for K-12 students.

The State Board of Education had been opposed to the…

Fourteen Missouri school districts, including St. Louis Public, Ferguson-Florissant and Wellston schools, will get more than $4 million total in stimulus grants for technology in the classroom and technology-based teaching.

Gov. Jay Nixon announced the grants today at St. Louis Public’s…

Gov. Jay Nixon signed into law yesterday a wide-ranging education bill. Among other things, the bill allows St. Louis Public Schools teachers to receive merit-based raises, gives districts an option for a four-day school week, and places restrictions on seclusion…

Cheaters beware. It is now a misdemeanor in Missouri to use a fake degree or one from a diploma mill to apply for a job, admission to a college or in connection with any business, job or public office.

Gov. Jay…

Southeast Missouri State University officials did not get the $37 million to renovate aging science labs that they had hoped for out of a proposed statewide bond issue that failed in the last legislative session.

But the school is rejoicing over…

Not surprisingly, the folks at the University of Missouri are none too pleased by Gov. Jay Nixon’s budget announcement this morning. Nixon is vetoing some state funding, and has frozen other funds slated for a variety of projects, including the…

A tuition freeze for this fall at the University of Missouri is on the agenda of Board of Curators meeting later this week. But the 0 percent tuition increase would be contingent on flat state appropriations for higher education, the…

In case you missed it, the Post-Dispatch ran a guest editorial yesterday from Faith Sandler, executive director of the The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis. In it, she strongly supports Gov. Jay Nixon’s proposal to equalize the awards that public…

Two bills have been filed in the Missouri General Assembly that would change how state scholarship money is distributed through the Access Missouri program.

Sen. Kurt Shaefer, R-Columbia, is the sponsor of SB 390. Rep. Gayle Kingery, R-Poplar Bluff, has filed HB…