Education

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.

Public schools have been able to provide free meals to all students regardless of their families’ income because of waivers Congress passed at the start of the pandemic. But families could soon have to start paying for their kids’ lunches again as food prices rise.

The school board on Monday voted 5-3 in favor of keeping a five-day school week.

The Montana Office of Public Instruction says about 19% of school districts in the state are taking part in a new incentive program to raise starting teacher pay next year.

Numerous newspapers quoted Lynn B. McMullen as expressing support for Nazi Germany’s sterilization of the “unfit” in 1935 while giving a graduation speech at Colorado State.

Rob Watson is leaving the school district to be the executive director for the School Administrators of Montana.