by [email protected] | Feb 19, 2024 | Education, News, Show Me Today
A new study has been released about the impact of four-day school weeks in Missouri. Alisa Nelson talks to State Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven about the study’s findings.
by Alisa Nelson | Nov 10, 2021 | Crime / Courts, Education, News
Missouri will soon be sending letters to certificated teachers across the state whose personally identifiable information may have been compromised. Last month, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter informed the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education...
by Alisa Nelson | Jul 30, 2021 | Education, News
State Senator Cindy O’Laughlin, R-Shelbina, wants Dr. Margie Vandeven out as state education commissioner. In Missouri, curriculum and accompanying instructional practices, materials, and textbooks are decided upon at the local level – not at the state level. But...
by Alisa Nelson | Feb 16, 2021 | Education, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
“Our state’s teachers and support staff have faithfully risked their lives this year,” a letter says from Missouri’s 2017-2021 Teachers of the Year. It is addressed to Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Director Randall Williams and it presses him...
by Ashley Byrd | Nov 12, 2020 | Education, Health / Medicine, News
Governor Mike Parson and state education director Margie Vandeven have loosened the guidelines for making students and staff quarantine after exposure to someone with COVID-19, if both people were properly wearing masks. Vandeven explained at a press conference...