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Missouri Senate’s new budget would give $214 million for school transportation
The Missouri Senate approved a record-breaking budget of $45.1 billion for the upcoming fiscal year.
Continue ReadingThe Missouri Senate approved a record-breaking budget of $45.1 billion for the upcoming fiscal year.
Continue ReadingA Cole County judge sentenced a Jefferson City man to prison this week in the deadly 2018 shooting of a Lincoln University student.
Continue ReadingTuition for students at Lincoln University will soon increase.
Continue ReadingAn Oakland Middle School mother, Crenda Warren, continues to search for answers after a bus driver saw her 12-year-old son have a seizure and drove off without helping
Continue ReadingOfficials at Columbia Public Schools have evacuated Jefferson Middle School due to a gas leak in the area causing an odor in the school.
Continue ReadingA Blair Oaks School District bus was involved in a wreck at 4 p.m. Monday on Route M near the Wardsville city limits.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The family of a teen hospitalized after a night of drinking at an MU fraternity settled with three people who were involved. Adult chapter advisors Jeff Wagoner and Chris Palmero along with fraternity secretary Collin Clark settled with the family of 18-year-old Danny Santulli. Santulli left the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house last year
Continue ReadingOn Friday a mother is speaking out after her son’s bus driver allegedly watched her 12-year-old son have a seizure in the street but left to drive her route.
Continue ReadingOn Monday, Gov. Parson will be speaking with Columbia Police Chief Geoff Jones to discuss public safety and solutions for the law enforcement workforce.
Continue ReadingThe University of Missouri System Board of Curators met on Thursday to discuss the Five-year Capital Plans for MU, and to address the rising inflation rates.
Continue ReadingThe Columbia Board of Education voted Thursday to increase pay for all district employees and approved a collective bargaining agreement that ups base pay for teachers.
Continue ReadingThe UM Board of Curators are set to meet Thursday morning at 9 a.m. at Missouri S&T and are scheduled to discuss inflation at the university among other topics.
Continue ReadingA former Columbia Public School teacher alleges in a newly filed lawsuit that she was “forced out” of the district for taking and sharing photos of rooms used to isolate students at the district’s school for children with special educational needs.
Continue ReadingLincoln University has struggled with funding woes in recent years.
Continue ReadingThe pandemic highlighted issues nursing homes nationwide have faced for years, like staffing shortages and inadequate funding and pay, according to a new report.
Continue ReadingAngela Jolley says in the lawsuit filed last week in Boone County that CPS administrators began to “punish” her after she took photos of isolation rooms used at the district’s CORE building and shared them with the media.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Columbia Public Schools called the Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s lawsuit over its former mask rule moot since the district dropped its mandate. The district asked Judge Joshua Devine to dismiss the attorney general’s January lawsuit on Thursday. The district argued that it no longer has a policy requiring masks that
Continue ReadingThe 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.
Continue ReadingA 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.
Continue ReadingThe 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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