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By Jazmine Knight Normally the Free Application for Federal Student Aid opens Oct. 1. However, for the 2024-25 period, students had to wait almost three months for it to open on Dec. 30, causing issues for students and financial aid departments. According to the Department of Education, it computed about 3 million submitted applications by

By Marcus Clem Barbara Spencer and Miranda Ham are recognized as the very best at what they do across the St. Joseph School District for the 2023-24 school year. In being named as Support Person of the Year, Ham is said to represent the height of work done by hundreds of staffers, which includes all

By Kendra Simpson Many residents received a text message with a link to a survey on Wednesday afternoon containing questions about St. Joseph schools, though it did not come from the district. One question inquired about “sexually explicit” and “pornographic” books in St. Joseph elementary school libraries. The same question also said, “The school district

By Marcus Clem The Missouri Western State University Board of Governors unanimously voted to give Elizabeth Kennedy a three-year contract extension as chief executive of St. Joseph’s hometown higher education campus. Kennedy assumed office as university president in February 2021, having become interim president in summer 2020. Her current contract expires on June 30 of

By Marcus Clem Broad staff shortages will worsen if the St. Joseph Board of Education does not implement some kind of reform soon, several teachers warned on Thursday. The teachers spoke to the committee on recruitment and retention at the Noyes Administration Building, offering commentary that favored dropping Monday from the weekly class calendar. The

By Marcus Clem Contributors to a key St. Joseph School District panel often talked over each other and struggled for common ground Wednesday as a presentation on the district’s future arrived from Superintendent Gabe Edgar. The plan, which in part envisions St. Joseph becoming by the year 2030 a two-high-school town — with both schools

By Marcus Clem Where student proficiency can be simplified to color codes of green, yellow and red, the St. Joseph School District sees much more red than would be preferred. The district conducts i-Ready diagnostic testing several times per year. These tests do not have impacts on how the state regulates each school, like the

By NewsPress Now Highland Community College has named its next leader. Dr. Vincent Bowhay will be the 45th president of the school located in Highland, Kansas. More than 50 people applied for the job as part of a nationwide search that was narrowed to three finalists, and Bowhay was selected by a unanimous vote of

By Marcus Clem Research in part funded by a nonprofit with St. Joseph ties advises caution before additional Missouri school districts adopt the four-day class calendar. The Show Me Institute is producing a three-part study of the increasingly popular calendar plan, which the St. Joseph School District might adopt for the 2024-2025 year. A Board