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…
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…
JEFFERSON CITY — Members of two state education boards said they hope an expansion of education data tracking systems will ultimately lead to more public awareness about the importance of education.
Missouri received a $9 million grant earlier this month from the…
JEFFERSON CITY – The two state education boards met today to discuss education from preschool to graduate school, and they heard from at least one person who is still hoping for a quality rating system.
Karen Bartz of the Coordinating Board for…
Two more charter schools have been cleared to open in St. Louis.
The state board yesterday approved an elementary, the Grand Community School, and a middle school, KIPP St. Louis.
Both schools aim to target at-risk students in predominantly minority areas.
Grand Community…
The State Board of Education also heard today from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, who in 2007 started working through a grant to improve charter school programs in Missouri.
Douglas Thaman of NACSA told the board that his organization is…
JEFFERSON CITY — The State Board of Education today approved a five- year charter for the St. Louis Language Immersion Schools with little discussion.
With a similar model to Académie Lafayette in Kansas City, SLLIS will start off with two schools, Spanish…
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In town for its two-day monthly meeting, the State Board of Education stopped by Clyde C. Miller Career Academy (1000 N. Grand) Wednesday for lunch, the first stop on an afternoon spent touring schools spread across…
