The U.S. Department of Education has chosen Missouri to head up a national experiment on a new K-12 statewide testing model to measure what students know. Missouri is the only state in the nation to begin the trial run during the upcoming school year. The state will...
Preliminary results are out on the latest end-of-year test scores, and they show overall improvement among Missouri’s K-12 public school students. They had the greatest gains in Math and Science, with two exceptions. In Math, the increases ranged from under 1% to as...
Missouri has 34 schools for the severely disabled with about 700 students enrolled statewide. The state is studying the delivery of services to these students. State Education Commissioner Karla Eslinger told the Missouri Senate Education Committee this week that a...
To listen to the interview with Missouri Office of Childhood (OOC) Assistant Commissioner Pam Thomas, click here. (13:03) Missouri says it expects to finish its backlog of childcare subsidy payments by the end of this month for family and provider applications,...
