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Continue ReadingColumbia Public Schools is now reporting the number of student COVID-19 cases in elementary school, middle school and high school.
Continue ReadingThe Missouri General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Education heard testimony from families struggling with online school, especially parents with kids who have individual education programs on Friday.
Continue ReadingThe Missouri General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Education heard testimony from parents upset with Columbia Public Schools’ response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Continue ReadingState education leaders explain the process of finding a school district’s new superintendent, as Columbia Public Schools will soon start a search for its own.
Continue ReadingThe Boonville Board of Education approved a measure at its meeting Wednesday night updating the district’s policy on close contacts, which at least two state departments have criticized.
Continue ReadingColumbia’s public middle and high school students could learn next month when they’ll return to classrooms.
Continue ReadingThe Morgan County R-II School District canceled Tuesday classes because of threats made on social media.
Continue ReadingElementary students across Columbia are returning to the classrooms Monday for the first time in seven months.
Continue ReadingCPS Superintendent Peter Stiepleman will join ABC 17 News as elementary students get ready to return to the classroom.
Continue ReadingElementary schools will soon be full of students as Columbia Public Schools starts four-day week in-person learning on Monday amid COVID-19.
Continue ReadingIn a press release, the superintendant Sarah Wisdom said it “considers the education and well-being of our students and staff to be of the utmost importance,” and that the move is because it believes the lack of substitutes would lessen the quality of education.
Continue ReadingThe Boonville Board of Education will consider classifying school employees as “essential” at a special meeting Wednesday.
Continue ReadingAs Columbia Public Schools’ Elementary teachers are preparing their classrooms for in-person, parents are preparing their children for the new normal before returning to school on Monday, Oct. 19th for the first in over six months.
Continue ReadingOnline learning continues to show it’s challenges within Columbia Public Schools as data shows failing grades are significantly up this year as students learn online.
Continue ReadingSchool board President Helen Wade said during the board’s four-hour meeting that the youngest kids are the ones that need to be in-person first.
Continue ReadingThe Columbia School Board voted to allow some students to return to the classroom.
Continue ReadingOnline school comes with all sorts of new challenges. Among them is ensuring students don’t cheat on exams when they’re taken outside the classroom.
Continue ReadingThe Board of Education is set to vote on an in-person four-day week learning model on Monday for Columbia Public Schools to return to classrooms, while parents await to see how the decision could impact their families.
Continue ReadingThe Board of Education is set to hold a meeting in which the main focus will be making a formal motion and voting on the districts re-opening plan.
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