After public backlash, the Missouri Board of Education has voted to roll back a proposed plan to create social-emotional learning standards. Missouri will instead offer social-emotional educational resources as an option to the state’s K-12 public schools....
“We’re not out of the woods,” said State Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven. Her response centers around student scores on state-mandated tests given during the 2022-23 school year. A preliminary report released at Tuesday’s State Board of Education meeting shows...
The year 2005 was the last time Missouri’s minimum teacher salary requirement was increased. What has happened in the past 16 years? Missouri Education Commissioner, Dr. Margie Vandeven, says the state has fallen significantly behind its eight bordering states in...
A new state statute requires Missouri K-12 districts to start 14 days prior to Labor Day or later, unless the state Board of Education waives the regulation. Today, the board voted to give the State Education Commissioner temporary authority to decide whether...
