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Two schools in the Hickman Mills district, Smith Hale Middle School and Ruskin High School, are participating in a national program that provides counseling and clinical mentoring to girls who have experienced traumatic stress.

Kansas City has its share of popular rappers, including Tech N9ne and Amira Wang — but few of them are middle schoolers. This local fifth-grader is making kid-friendly rap music that’s just as cool as the adult stuff.

Manuel “Manny” Guzman was fatally stabbed inside Northeast Middle School in April 2022. His mother is now suing the school district for failing to address security problems that contributed to his death.

Even though back-to-school expenses are projected to be higher than ever, Missouri’s tax-free weekend and free community events allow Kansas Citians to save money.

Six elementary schools in the Shawnee Mission school district returned to wearing masks Monday. All of the schools surpassed the district’s 5% threshold of overall student absence rates related to illness.

About 100 students, parents and staff marched out of school to protest bills in the Missouri legislature that they say target LGBTQ children and their families.

St. Louis County restored the only known remaining African American school in the county. During the 1900s, African Schoolhouse No. 4 held about 20 Black children each school year before it closed in 1950.

Students, parents, and teachers held pride flags and signs along the street in response to Grain Valley School District's removal of LGBTQ stickers.

More than 100 people gathered at Passantino Bros. Funeral Home to say goodbye to Manuel Guzman, a 14-year-old student fatally stabbed by another 14-year-old at Northeast Middle School on April 12.

Judge David Munton initially ordered Agape be shut down last week at the request of the state Attorney General and Department of Social Services. The state’s petition claimed that an Agape staff member had been placed on Missouri’s child abuse and neglect central registry for physically abusing a student.