Greg Upham

The Alberton School District board of trustees Tuesday night voted to lay off its technology and music teachers, citing a “budget cliff.” It’s a familiar story that’s played out in schools large and small across the state as public schools face a funding crisis. MTPR’s Austin Amestoy takes us to a board meeting in Alberton.

Board members voted last month to hire former Billings Public Schools leader Greg Upham as Heart Butte's new interim superintendent to help stabilize the school. He spoke with Montana Public Radio's Austin Amestoy.

The federal program that helps people pay broadband internet bills stopped accepting new enrollments this week due to lack of funds. A longtime public schools administrator is taking the reins at a school on the Blackfeet Reservation struggling with financial woes.

Of the Montana schools that have met the state's program deadline, most show high levels of lead in school drinking water.

The superintendents of all eight of Montana’s AA school districts wrote a letter last week expressing “disappointment” and “no confidence” in Montana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen. Missoula School Superintendent Rob Watson says frustrations with OPI have intensified over the past three months.

In the early days of the school year some Montana districts are already closing classrooms due to COVID-19 cases.

Enrollment in public schools across the state compared to last year is down roughly 3,300 students, according to state education officials. District…

The Yellowstone County health department is on-boarding school staff to track down the close contacts of people who test positive for COVID-19.

School districts across Montana have been in session for a few weeks now and there have already been confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in schools.…

Billings Public Schools are opening an investigation into a middle school principal following the possible connection to social media posts a local superintendent calls "appalling."