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.

The governor and superintendent of public instruction both objected to new language education officials adopted for a teachers’ code of ethics.

The district in north-central Montana is looking to potentially transition to a 4-day school week as a way to improve teacher recruitment and boost morale.

The Billings Public Schools Board of Trustees voted Monday night to keep “Lawn Boy” and “Gender Queer: A Memoir” in circulation at the high school level, saying both books meet the libraries’ selection criteria.

Great Falls Public Schools will resume classes on Tuesday after moving to remove learning last week when it did not have enough teachers to instruct students in person.

After announcing last month it was planning to make masks optional, Billings Public Schools now says it will keep its mask requirement in place when the new semester starts next week.