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Cole County Judge Daniel Green ruled on Wednesday that St. Louis and Jackson counties can't intervene in a case in which he decided that local health departments lack authority to issue and enforce health orders.
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Lee’s Summit refuses to back down on COVID orders after Missouri Attorney General threatens lawsuitsA lawyer for the Lee's Summit School District said the attorney general's recent letters ordering dozens of school districts to drop their mask mandates and quarantine orders “not only lack legal effect — they are simply wrong.”
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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sent letters to more than 30 school districts threatening legal action if they don't drop their mask and quarantine policies.
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Attorney General Eric Schmitt is facing backlash online for requesting parents to submit videos or pictures of school districts enforcing mask orders and quarantine policies.
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Disruptions in the supply chain left metro school districts scrambling to find suppliers. The KC Food Hub is stepping in to connect schools with farmers.
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Joe Oswald repeated the N-word while disciplining a student. The school board decided not to fire him for it.
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Joe Oswald’s attorney, Michael McDorman, told the board that Oswald didn’t willfully use the N-word in an insulting way. Rather, he said, Oswald was simply reading aloud what the student had said.
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Previous boundary changes have been contentious in the suburban school district, but Lee's Summit has been renovating old buildings to make facilities more equitable across the district.
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A lot of kids aren't meeting grade-level expectations after a year of interruptions. Here's how the Lee's Summit, North Kansas City and Kearney school districts are addressing COVID-19 learning loss.
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Residents from Platte, Jackson, Clay and Cass counties elected public school board members and Kansas City voters overwhelmingly renewed that city's 1% earnings tax.
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Jackson County Legislators Can't Decide If Urban Or Suburban Schools Should Get More Coronavirus AidSuburban school districts will get more money if Jackson County distributes CARES funds by enrollment. But high poverty districts say the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on the low-income families they serve.
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The Jackson County Health Department says all students should learn virtually when there's community spread of the coronavirus. But Johnson County health officials says elementary students can learn face-to-face.