Education

A bill that would remove exemptions for public school employees to show material considered obscene to minors advanced out of committee in the state Legislature.

The most recent data from 2019 indicates that Montana is experiencing an educator shortage.

Montana public school students whose families receive Medicaid benefits will be automatically enrolled in free and reduced-price meal programs during the next school year.

The University of Montana launched a new initiative this week designed to fully cover the cost of tuition and fees for qualifying in-state students.

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

State lawmakers studying facial recognition technology expressed concerns about student privacy when the tech is used in schools. The state Economic Affairs Interim Committee Monday met with a school district that has put in place facial recognition technology, and leading public school associations and agencies.

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.

The Montana’s Board of Regents has given approval for Montana State University to name a computer science department building the Gianforte School of Computing.

Highlands College of Montana Tech will use the $1 million of federal funding given to the Butte-Silver Bow county as pandemic aid to provide workforce development, education and training.

The Salish Kootenai College launched a program this fall that aims to train the next generation of fire, wildlife and forest managers in the Columbia River Basin in Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. It's the first master’s program at the Pablo-based four-year school on the Flathead Indian Reservation.