Education

A national education organization has filed a lawsuit against Lincoln University in Jefferson City over access to records.

Online supporters of the University of Missouri Press are gaining members from around the world and asking the University of Missouri’s president to save the press.

Governor Jay Nixon signed a bill into law today that calls for more uniformity among higher education institutions in Missouri.

The Missouri Department of Economic Development announced earlier this week that Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Missouri has been approved for state tax credits. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Missouri received $102,782 in state tax credits under the Department of Economic Development’s Youth Opportunities Program.

New appointees to the University of Missouri Board of Curators were welcomed to their positions Wednesday morning.

Researchers from the MU College of Engineering plan to fly to Iraq on June 17th as part of a new collaboration with the University of Technology in Baghdad.

The Columbia Public School district will receive about $400,000 less funding from the state next year compared to the previous year. The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, or DESE, announced its preliminary allocation plan last week. The estimation is based on the state foundation formula. DESE’s spokesperson Sarah Potter says the state doesn’t have enough money to keep up with the foundation formula, which has been in effect for six years.