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Kansas City Public Schools wants to "level the playing field" for its students by investing hundreds of millions to improve facilities and learning environments. Voters have not passed a bond to support building deferred maintenance and improvements since 1967.

The bill would boost minimum teacher salaries from $25,000 to $40,000 a year. It also greatly expands Missouri's tax-credit scholarship program for K-12 students to attend private schools.

Last year, the State Board of Education and the Missouri Charter Public School Commission pulled the charter of Kansas City's Genesis School, a K-8 school with a focus on high-risk students. But an appeals court ruled that charters have the right to judicial review if the state attempts to shut them down.

As a second-year middle school teacher, Alana Washington knows how much trauma her southeast Kansas City students can go through on a daily basis. She started the Save a Life Mentorship to foster an environment where students can find a home within themselves.

MoScholars, the state's K-12 tax-credit scholarship program, is currently only available in charter counties and cities with at least 30,000 residents. A Missouri bill that advanced Tuesday would open the program statewide and increase the number of eligible families.

Kansas City’s Genesis School taught at-risk students for years, then it nearly lost its charter. The near-miss raised larger questions about what success and accountability looks like in Missouri. Plus: a USDA program gives a second chance to food that stores won’t sell — but is perfectly good to eat.

Genesis reopened after losing its charter earlier this year, but the near-miss raised larger questions about what success and accountability looks like for charters that serve students with high needs.

A Missouri bill lays out a plan to let more public schools to teach the Bible, but designing a course that respects students’ First Amendment rights can be tricky.

The school districts want to use a new state law to get out of the Missouri standardized testing and accountability system. Several Kansas City-area districts have asked for an exemption from the Missouri Assessment Program, including Lee's Summit, Liberty and Raymore-Peculiar.

Nearly 100 teachers at the Ewing Marion Kauffman School are unionizing in an effort to reduce teacher turnover and raise their pay. If they win recognition, they will be only the second charter school in Missouri to unionize.

Hogan Preparatory Academy will have to pay $950,000 to a former student who alleges a teacher at the middle school sexually harassed and inappropriately touched her when she was 11.

Legislation prefiled for the 2023 session would expand charter schools, help parents fund private school education and give homeschoolers access to public school activities.