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'The FAA adopting a regulation is not binding on the city or the state of Illinois,' Springfield Corporation Counsel Jim Zerkle said.

It’s been a challenge to care for some unvaccinated patients with COVID-19 who continue to doubt the pandemic is real, an HSHS St. John’s nurse says.

Springfield's internal tests show fewer than half of students in grades 3-5 were at grade level in reading or math at mid-year point.

Tim Taylor was the headmaster at Branson's Legacy Christian Academy and the former superintendent in Hollister and Taneyville.

Galen Bacharier and Roger McKinney USA TODAY NETWORK JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri is surveying school districts around the state on whether they teach critical race theory, state education officials said Monday, as a legislative committee held a contentious initial hearing on the topic. Michael Harris, chief of governmental relations for the state's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, told the committee that the department asked districts around the state whether their curriculum includes the academic concept or The 1619 Project. A department spokesperson said Monday that th...