by Mike Lear | May 22, 2014 | Education, News
The State Board of Education won’t approve the cost of a lawsuit against it filed by the Normandy School District. The District is suing the Board and 20 other school districts over the state’s student transfer law, that has left Normandy nearly bankrupt...
by Mike Lear | May 20, 2014 | Education, News
The troubled St. Louis-area Normandy School District will be lapsed and continue to operate as the Normandy Schools Collaborative, the state Board of Education voted today. The new system will be run by a Joint Governing Board appointed by the state Board that will...
by Mike Lear | Nov 22, 2013 | Education, News
Missouri’s Commissioner of Education says she and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education did nothing unusual in working with a lobbyist on the development of a ballot initiative. The Missouri chapter of the National Education Association obtained...
by Mike Lear | Nov 21, 2013 | Education, News
The Missouri chapter of a national teachers’ union says the state’s education commissioner went too far in working with lobbyists creating a ballot initiative to eliminate teacher tenure and institute evaluations based on student performance. The...
by admin | Jan 12, 2010 | Education
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) is holding a series of public hearings to inform the public of changes that will be made to the delivery of the state’s special education services in order to be compliant with federal rules...
