The district wants to ask taxpayers to help make up for a budget shortfall in its K-12 general fund.

To avoid emergency funding cuts, Bozeman Public Schools is looking to cut $4.1 million from its $57 million K-12 general fund budget. Superintendent Casey Bertram says the disruption of closing elementary school would not be worth saving $300,000.

Preliminary fall data from OPI show another year of K-12 student growth following pandemic-era decline.

A Montana law requiring public schools to notify parents of lessons that mention human sexuality — and allowing parents to pull their children from those lessons — has reached further and been more cumbersome than anticipated, according to two school district leaders.

The agreement streamlines the process for graduates with an associate degree in business administration from Fort Peck Community College in Poplar or an associate degree in elementary education from Chief Dull Knife College in Lame Deer to transfer to MSUB for their bachelor’s.

Montana's fourth and eighth graders saw significant declines in math and reading comprehension during the pandemic.

Montana’s smaller, more rural school districts are having a hard time finding and retaining teachers. About one-fifth of schools in the state have moved to four-day work weeks to recruit and retain educators.

With the school year starting up, schools in the Billings area are having difficulty finding people to hire for key positions.

The Montana Board of Regents on Thursday voted to let Montana State University name a computer science department building the Gianforte School of Computing after the governor's family foundation.

From debates over library books to local GOP campaign contributions, politics are defining the Billings school board election in more ways than one.