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Missoula County Public Schools trustees voted Tuesday to approve steep reductions as the district faces an $8 million shortfall. Districts statewide are contending with budgets gutted by the end of COVID-19 relief dollars, declining enrollments and rising costs.
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Over 40% of Montana high schoolers reported experiencing symptoms of depression in the last year. A biomedical research facility in Great Falls has been awarded nearly $14 million to launch a rural health research center.
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A freight train partially derailed after striking a snow bank near Dillon early Wednesday morning. The Missoula County Public Schools Board of Trustees intends to offer the district’s top job to the current Kalispell Public Schools Superintendent.
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A Montana law requiring public schools to notify parents of lessons that mention human sexuality — and allowing parents to pull their children from those lessons — has reached further and been more cumbersome than anticipated, according to two school district leaders.