By JORDAN SHAPIRO (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is asking the Legislature for $10 million for Lincoln University to acquire and renovate a soon-to-be vacant hospital in Jefferson...

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — The Kansas City school district has released a school-improvement plan that was developed with a local coalition. The plan's submission Tuesday to the State Board of Education...

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A group of school superintendents has developed an alternative to a Missouri law that allows students to transfer from unaccredited to accredited districts. The Kansas City...

The Warrensburg Schools Foundation announces an online raffle to see CMA New Artist of the Year Hunter Hayes in concert and benefit the Partners in Progress project to update the Ridge View Playground. ...

By CHRIS BLANK (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon says he wants to provide full funding for public schools by the time he leaves office in January 2017 — a goal that would require...

By CHRIS BLANK (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Kansas City's public schools haven't seen sufficient or long enough improvement to upgrade its accreditation, Missouri's State Board of Education president...

By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — The consultants hired by Missouri to recommend ways of improving Kansas City schools are tempering expectations — noting that improvement is possible but...

By LUCAS L. JOHNSON II (NASHVILLE, Tenn., AP) — When a third-grade student who had been stung by a wasp developed welts on his neck and had trouble breathing, school nurse Amanda Williams had the necessary...