Missoula County Public Schools

Some Montana parents sending their students back to school this fall had new options to pick from. The state’s first batch of 17 public charter schools opened their doors less than a year after they first got the green light.

More Montana teachers are out of a job as schools statewide struggle to balance their budgets. Missoula County Public Schools trustees voted on May 30th to terminate the contracts of 47 educators.

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.

An internet service provider says it will use tens of millions of dollars in federal funding to expand high-speed internet access in western Montana. Officials with Montana’s national forests say prescribed burning is set to begin and run through the spring season. The Missoula Police Department says three female juveniles were taken into custody Wednesday regarding alleged threats made against Hellgate High School.

The Missoula Police Department says three female juveniles were taken into custody Wednesday regarding alleged threats made against Hellgate High School. No violence occurred and no one was injured.

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.

Missoula police say one person is in custody after a Sentinel High School student was detained with a weapon in their possession outside the high school Tuesday.

A Big Sky High School student was taken into custody Friday by the Missoula Police Department’s school resource officer after allegedly making a “credible threat” of school violence on social media.

Montana education officials adopted some new language for a teachers’ code of ethics, resulting in objection from the governor and superintendent of public instruction.

Missoula’s school board of trustees voted to maintain public school mask mandates, at least for now. The board is also thinking about the metrics that will be used to eventually lift the rule.