Billings Public Schools

School leadership says the district is balancing budget and staffing issues.

Billings is home to the state’s largest school district, and the highest dropout rate. The district is trying a new lunch time program to get students to re-engage in learning in a variety of ways.

A handful of charter schools in the Billings and Bozeman areas are slated to open as planned this summer despite complaints over the rollout of the new program.

A manga about students trying to take down an alien teacher will remain in Billings high school libraries following a narrow vote this week.

Billings Public School District 2 will ask voters in May for a safety levy to include more mental health and physical health professionals among other needs.

In the year since the Montana High School Association added baseball, less than two dozen teams have signed on — and, because of things like cost and field access, many of the state’s largest districts don’t have firm plans to “play ball” quite yet.

Calls reporting an active shooter situation were made to dispatchers in Billings, Colstrip, Forsyth, Manhattan, Miles City and Red Lodge as well as Cascade, Madison and Gallatin counties

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

The district, citing falling case counts and improved attendance, is removig the face covering requirement that’s been in place since it was reimplemented in August.

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.