The Missouri House this week approved an amendment that would allow school districts to hold votes to prohibit transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams.
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A Boone County judge could rule on several motions to dismiss a lawsuit against a former University of Missouri fraternity over a pledge’s hospitalization from alcohol poisoning.
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The MU Board of Curators’ Health Affairs Committee met Thursday to discuss multiple reports including an update on the children’s hospital construction.
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School resource officers have returned to some Columbia high schools for a little over a month now, after the city approved a contract with Columbia police and Columbia Public Schools.
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Watch Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speak at Knob Noster High School in the player above. KNOB NOSTER, Mo. (KMIZ) On Wednesday, First Lady Jill Biden and U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona visited Whiteman Air Force Base in Knob Noster. The two highlighted the Month of the Military Child Program and other programs
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COLUMBIA, Mo. The Columbia Public Schools Foundation (CPSF) will give out thousands of dollars in grants to celebrate its 25th anniversary. On Wednesday, the foundation plans to visit Alpha Hart Lewis Elementary, Lange Middle School, and other schools to give out $2,500 grants. CPSF-Press-Release-25th-Anniversary-Grants-04-22Download “It’s our own version of the prize patrol,” said CPSF Board
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The Missouri Attorney General’s Office filed suit against the Moberly School District in Nov. 2021 for failing to comply with the Sunshine Law.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City School District announced the hiring of two new middle school principals and a new deputy superintendent. The district named Dr. Heather Beaulieu as the new deputy superintendent beginning July 1, 2022. Beaulieu will succeed Bryan McGraw, who will transition to the role of superintendent. Dr. Heather Beaulieu “The
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The Columbia Board of Education is considering a grant application to pay for a gender-affirming closet at Rock Bridge High School.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ( Lincoln University tabbed former UCF assistant Jimmy Drew its new men’s basketball coach on Tuesday morning. Drew joins the Blue Tigers program following a six-year run as an assistant coach and director of basketball operations at the University of Central Florida, under head coach Johnny Dawkins. In his time in sunshine
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A proposal to spend millions of coronavirus recovery dollars for a “nature school” in Columbia will come before the Columbia Board of Education on Monday.
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Missouri House of Representatives Budget Committee meets Monday at noon to discuss proposed budget items for public universities’ capital projects.
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Grant aims to help nurses talk with people hesitant to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou is hosting it’s annual volunteer program Caring for Columbia, where student’s will help over 40 different local organizations and homeowner sites on Saturday. The Student lead program was created within the Office of Student Engagement. Matt Hemmersmeier, director of the event, said “Each spring, we put on a day of service
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The University of Missouri’s Faculty Council is set to meet Thursday at 3:30 p.m., as the group is expected to vote on whether or not to extend test-optional admissions in the university.
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Dr. Jeremy Moreland was installed as the 13th president of William Woods University in a ceremony with the William Woods community, the WWU Board of Trustees, University alumni and supporters, and state and local leaders. “I join you today both humbled and in awe of the magnitude and privilege of the responsibility
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Jim Bullard, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis, stopped at the University of Missouri Thursday morning to discuss the economy and monetary policy.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), Office of Childhood (OOC), has suspended the child care license of a Linn daycare because the staff administered unknown medications to children to calm them at naptime. DESE investigated a complaint on March 24 that staff at Busy Bee Learning Academy, in
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17,724 voters in Columbia voted in favor of an $80 million bond issue to fund the construction of a new $25 million elementary school in south Columbia.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Suzette Waters and incumbent Blake Willoughby have won seats on the Columbia Board of Education with 100% of precincts reporting. Waters received 12,547 votes and Willoughby got 11,277 votes. Third place, Andrea Lisenby, got 9,493 votes. Waters and Willoughby will each serve three-year terms. Blake Willoughby Blake Willoughby is the only one of
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