State Awards Jennings School District Full Accreditation

Jennings, MO  (KTRS)  Jennings School District is making the grade. At  Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) State Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, DESE awarded full accreditation to the Jennings School District. This comes after Jennings met full accreditation standards for two consecutive years.  As a result, Jennings students who met 57 percent of…

MU Creates New Office For Civil Rights & Title IX

Columbia, MO  (KTRS)  The University of Missouri has a new resource for dealing with discrimination. On Wednesday, Garnett Stokes, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at the  University of Missouri,  announced the creation of a new Office for Civil Rights & Title IX. This new office will centralize reports and investigations of discrimination on…

Illinois attorney general asks for federal probe

( KTRS ) Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether the Chicago Police Department’s practices violate federal and constitutional law. Madigan says that the “shocking death” of 17 yr old, Laquan McDonald, who was fatally shot by white police officer in 2014, raises serious questions about the use…