School Year Length Needs to Be Determined Locally

There is talk in the Missouri Legislature of trimming down the school year from the required one-thousand-40 hours yearly. Superintendent Doctor Tim Hadfield says it is an idea that needs to be decided at the local level…

As it is now, school cannot start later than ten days before Labor Day, which falls on the first Monday of September, without a public hearing. This school year, school got underway on August 18^th 2015, 20 days prior to Labor Day…