Southern Boone R-1, located in central Missouri’s Ashland, won’t be switching to a four-day school week—at least not yet. The Board of Education voted Monday night to table the decision, keeping the district on a traditional five-day schedule for the 2026–2027 school...
A Mid-Missouri school district is the latest to consider the possibility of implementing a four-day week. Southern Boone R-1 School District in Ashland has about 2,000 students located in Boone County just outside of Jefferson City and Columbia. Matt Sharp, Public...
A Missouri House committee decided Friday that remote testimony via zoom will be up to individual committee chairmen and chairwomen this session. The Missouri House Consent and House Procedures Committee held about a 90-minute hearing on Friday in Jefferson City,...
Legislation aimed at providing forensic investigators with better access to crime and crash scenes has been filed by a mid-Missouri state lawmaker. State Rep. Sara Walsh, R-Ashland, says forensic investigators often can’t get past the vehicles backed up at the...
While the budget approved last week by the Missouri House cuts funding for the state’s public colleges and universities, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle hope some of those cuts can be restored this summer. And two key lawmakers from different parties are...
