By MARIA DANILOVA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department is considering only partially forgiving federal loans for students defrauded by for-profit colleges, according to department officials, abandoning the Obama administration’s policy of erasing that debt. Under President Barack Obama, tens of thousands of students deceived by now-defunct for-profit schools had over $550 million in…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis public school district is suing 32 teachers for breaking their contracts by leaving their jobs early. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the district filed nearly identical lawsuits this summer against teachers who left the district in 2015 or 2016. Starting in 2015, the district required non-tenured teachers…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) School nurses in the Parkway School District are learning how to be better prepared in the event of a mass casualty incident. On Monday, the district’s 35 school nurses attended the School Emergency Training Triage program. The purpose of this training is to provide these school nurses with the knowledge and…
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — A small Christian school near Branson says it won’t play any team whose players don’t stand for the national anthem. College of the Ozarks President Jerry Davis said Friday its players in every sport will not play in games where disrespect is exhibited toward the anthem or the U.S. flag. The…
Columbia, MO (KTRS) The learning and working environment at the University of Missouri appears to parallel conditions at universities throughout the nation. That’s according to a study by Rankin & Associates Consulting, which reported that the “findings were consistent with those found in higher education institutions across the country.” In 2016, the University of Missouri…
LADUE, MO (KTRS) – A prestigious St. Louis college preparatory school says it will discipline a group of students who exchanged a private series of racist, profane, and sexual Snapchat messages that were leaked online to a wider audience. Officials with Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School in Ladue began investigating after a…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois schools will be required to teach financial literacy skills such as balancing a checkbook and putting money into a savings account this school year. The Illinois State Board of Education adopted revised social science standards in 2015, according to The Springfield Journal-Register . Those standards were approved in February 2016…
CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois’ legislative leaders say they’ve reached a tentative agreement in the state’s school funding fight, but details are still being worked out. Senate Republican Leader Bill Brady and House Republican Leader Jim Durkin issued a statement Thursday saying there’s “agreement in principle,” but wording won’t be released until “drafts have been reviewed.”…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois House will attempt to reverse Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of a public school funding revamp next week, the speaker said Wednesday after a failed vote on legislation Democrats introduced to gauge support for the Republican governor’s alternative ideas. House Speaker Michael Madigan, a Democrat from Chicago, slammed GOP members…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois House will convene to take up the contentious school-funding issue. But lawmakers don’t plan to attempt to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of the legislation Wednesday. The Republican governor used an amendatory veto this month on Senate Bill 1 . The proposal would create a new school-funding formula. Rauner…