Today, we’re publishing our second annual Kansas City Regional Profile. Inside, you’ll find information on students, spending, and teachers in the traditional public school and public charter school districts in Jackson, Cass, Clay, and Platte counties.

Today, we’re publishing our second annual St. Louis Regional Profile. Inside, you’ll find information on students, spending, and teachers in the traditional public school and public charter school districts in St. Louis City and County, Jefferson County, and St. Charles County.

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In this blog, we offer a snapshot of our deeper analysis of school discipline disparities in Missouri.

The state legislature is back in session and ready to debate a variety of education topics. Here, we provide a list of PRiME research items related to the bills that were pre-filed and expected for debate during the 2021 session.

Following the COVD-19 shutdown in Spring 2020 and new state Senators and Representatives set to be sworn on January 6, this is sure to be an active session in the state legislature. In this blog we preview the pre-filed bills and potential debates over education-related laws here in the Show-Me-State.

The PRiME Center is pleased to share the 2020 Missouri Education Profile, presenting a 30,000 foot overview of Missouri’s schools and students and the resources supporting them. In this blog, you’ll find a brief description of the information in the 2020 profile

In this blog, we give a preview of the results shown in our new evidence primer on the Community Eligibility Provision.

The PRiME Center is pleased to announce that Emily Cupito has joined as Managing Director. In this role, Emily will work closely with the Director of Research and Evaluation, the Center’s affiliated professors, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students to conduct and share policy-relevant research on education in Missouri. Emily will also focus on outreach to school and district leaders, policymakers, and education stakeholders, ensuring they have access to evidence they need to make pressing decisions. Here, Emily shares her personal vision for how research can influence education policy and practice.

As the PRiME Center created its list of resources for discussing and teaching anti-racism, we also reached out to multiple school and district leaders in the St. Louis region for their views on how they approach anti-racism in their schools. Here, we share information on some of the efforts, tools, and policies these leaders have implemented to make their schools more inclusive and equitable.

This blog explores the potential of regional collaborations in addressing COVID-19 public health concerns and inequities across school districts.

There are growing concerns from teachers and families about school reopening. Yet as school districts are finalizing their reopening plans to ease the stress of the community, they are doing so without straightforward recommendations from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).

Over the past week, PRiME searched district websites and Facebook pages to locate reopening plans for nearly every Missouri school district. Though district plans are unique, all provide learning options within three general categories, and each balances student academic needs, the community’s health and safety, and district resources.

As the beginning of the new school year and the COVID-19 fall semester draw closer, school districts are beginning to release their plans for how they will protect students and staff from the virus that shut down schools nationwide last spring. Without public recommendations, concerns from teachers and parents are rising around many of the safety questions still to be answered by districts across Missouri and the rest of the nation.

Here is our running list of resources for parents and teachers on how to teach anti-racism, tolerance, and racial justice. Feel free to reach out with others you may come across.

In May, The National Center for Education Statistics released the 2020 Condition of Education. In this blog, we summarize some of the findings we believe to be the most interesting, important, and relevant for Missouri. Enjoy!

This week, EdWeek released the second of three parts in its annual Quality Counts series. We take a look at how Missouri measures up nationally on school funding, why funding matters to schools, and what this means with the recently announced COVID-19 related budget cuts.

Today’s blog looks at Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and why it’s an important part of student learning and development. We also have a few video lessons on SEL from SLU School of Education students to help with teaching SEL.

Today’s blog is a special guest post from Stacey Preis, Ph.D. on the end of the 2020 legislative session. It describes the financial implications of the COVID pandemic and how this is going to impact Missouri’s schools.