With the University of Montana already in session, Missoula County Public School District One schools will also begin the 2019-2020 school year this week.
Each year, MCPS High School Speech and Debate teams compete at the national tournament, and this year all three teams will travel together to Dallas, Texas in June.
As the numbers mount for victims of Missoula’s community-wide pertussis outbreak, MCPS Superintendent Mark Thane said on Friday at less than one percent of all students in the district have been affected by the disease.
Montana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen rolled out the results of the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) report cards for each of the state’s over 800 public schools, and said frankly ‘we can do better’.
With the retirement of current MCPS Superintendent Mark Thane at the end of the school year, the Board of Trustees has been busy reaching out throughout the nation for potential candidates, and has settled on three, one from Bozeman, one from Wisconsin, and one from Pennsylvania
The Missoula County School Board of Trustees is narrowing down the lost of candidates to replace retiring Superintendent Mark Thane, and the names of possible candidates will be released late Tuesday night.
When a student resides in a Missoula County Public School district, but the parents choose a school out of the district, MCPS loses the revenue from that student.