Education

A bill to change how Missouri colleges and universities handle complaints of sexual assault and harassment hit a roadblock in the state Senate Wednesday, raising questions about its chances of passing this year.

Roger Best, Ph.D., was installed as the university’s 16th president during an inauguration ceremony that took place in the Multipurpose Building arena.

Sacred Heart competed in the Missouri Envirothon program on April 10, earning second place at the regional level.

The Sedalia School District 200 Board of Education hired Joel Sherman as the next principal of the Pettis County Early Childhood Cooperative

State Fair Community College is hosting a plant sale now through May 10 in the Potter Ewing Agriculture Building on the Sedalia campus.

A long-standing debate over when the school year should begin is back before Missouri lawmakers, who are considering a bill that would restrict public schools from beginning the academic year until late August.

Skyline Elementary School has named its Character Kids for March 2019. The character trait was honesty.

BGCWCM says 17-year old Jazzmine Jones will now go on to compete at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America Midwest Regional Youth of the Year competition, to be held in July.

Sacred Heart elementary students continued the tradition of helping to save lives through the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Math-A-Thon, by raising over $9,000.

The Survival Adult Abuse Center will celebrate its 10th annual Girls’ Night Out event from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. May 3 in the University of Central Missouri Ballroom.