Board of Education

Preis will lead the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, which oversees about 500 public school districts and charter school systems in the state.

Voters in the Maryville School District approved Proposition Spoofhound, the Proposition 3 sales tax rollback, in Tuesday’s election with more than 60% of the vote.

Repeated budget items in state calculations led Gov. Mike Kehoe’s office to originally project an ending balance of less than $5 million for the coming fiscal year