Missouri · statute · Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 162 · 185 active provisions
Any school board of the state of Missouri, when it deems it a matter of public interest, may by two-thirds vote of its members join the Missouri School Boards' Association and appoint one or more of its members to attend meetings called by the association within the state of Missouri. The school board may direct paymen…
Notwithstanding other sections of the school laws which provide that members of school boards shall serve without compensation, the school board of any school district in the state, upon adoption of a resolution by the vote of a majority of all its members to authorize such action, may expend school district funds to p…
1. No person shall be a candidate for a member or director of the school board in any school district in this state if such person is registered or is required to be registered as a sex offender under sections 589.400 to 589.425. Any member or director of the school board of any school district who is registered or req…
1. Whenever (1) a seven-director school district is created out of one or more school districts, or (2) the boundary lines of any district are changed by the changing of the boundary lines of any city, incorporated town, or school district, or (3) any part of any school district is annexed to any other district or dist…
If a school district is annexed to an existing district or divided into two or more districts by a vote of the citizens, or is dissolved under the lapse procedures in section 162.081, court action, or any other authority of Missouri or federal laws, the successor school district shall become responsible for ensuring ac…
1. If the school boards of the several districts cannot agree upon an adjustment and apportionment of property and indebtedness as provided in section 162.031, the board of either district may appeal to the state board of education, which shall appoint three persons as a board of arbitration to make an adjustment and a…
Special meetings of school boards may be held at the times fixed by the board, or on the call of the president or of a majority of the members of the board. Each member shall be notified of the time, place and purpose of the meeting.
1. Before July 1, 2023, each school district and charter school shall, after receiving community input, implement a community engagement policy that provides residents of the school district methods of communicating with the school board or the governing board of a charter school located in the school district and with…
Any school district may, upon adoption of a resolution by a majority of its entire board of directors, designate specific school sponsored programs of instruction and extracurricular activities which the board believes present unusual physical hazards to students involved therein. Upon designating a hazardous program t…
Each school district shall have on file a statement from a medical examiner which indicates that the driver is physically qualified to operate a school bus for the purpose of transporting pupils. Such statement shall be made on a biennial basis. The term "medical examiner" includes, but is not limited to, doctors of me…
On an annual basis, each school district shall provide training in at least eight hours of duration to each school bus driver employed by the school district or under contract with the school district. Such training shall provide special instruction in school bus driving.
1. (1) By July 1, 2012, every school district shall adopt a written policy on information that the district provides about former employees, both certificated and noncertificated, to other public schools. By July 1, 2014, every charter school shall adopt a written policy on information that the charter school provides…
1. Every school district shall, by March 1, 2012, promulgate a written policy concerning employee-student communication. The governing body of each charter school shall adopt a written policy concerning employee-student communication by January 1, 2014. Such policy shall include, but not be limited to, the use of elect…
When the creation of a school district or a change in the boundaries of an existing school district leaves the remaining part of a district containing less than twenty children of school age or when the remaining part of a district is left without a schoolhouse, the state board of education shall order its annexation t…
For the purposes of sections 162.071, 162.073, 162.152, 162.171, 162.181, 162.191, 162.201, 162.241, 162.301, 162.311, 162.821 and 167.121, in those counties without a county commission, the following words shall have the following meaning: (1) "County clerk" shall mean the vice-chairman of the county legislature or co…
1. Whenever any school district in this state fails or refuses in any school year to provide for the minimum school term required by section 163.021 or is classified unaccredited, the state board of education shall, upon a district's initial classification or reclassification as unaccredited: (1) Review the governance…
1. Elections for all directors of any school district in which a majority of the district is located in a county with more than four hundred thousand but fewer than five hundred thousand inhabitants shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of even-numbered years, and the term of every schoo…
1. The state board of education may appoint additional members to any special administrative board appointed under section 162.081. 2. The state board of education may set a final term of office for any member of a special administrative board, after which a successor member shall be elected by the voters of the distri…
1. If any individual public elementary or secondary school, any charter school, or any school district is determined to be in the bottom five percent of scores on the annual performance report, such school, charter school, or district shall mail a letter to the parents and guardians of each student in such school, char…
If a school district has been classified as unaccredited within the previous five school years and the district is subsequently classified as provisionally accredited, the district shall be subject to lapse on June thirtieth of any school year in which the state board of education withdraws provisional accreditation or…
Any county clerk, county treasurer, school board member, officer or employee, or other officer, who willfully neglects or refuses to perform any duty imposed upon him by chapters 160 to 168, 170, 171, 177 and 178, or who willfully violates any provision of these chapters, is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction sh…
The state board of education shall establish within the department of elementary and secondary education a section of district reorganization. The state board, through the section of district reorganization, shall advise and, upon request by any county commission, cooperate with the various county commissions in making…
The county commission may, from time to time, pursuant to the provisions of section 161.152, submit to the state board of education specific plans for the reorganization of school districts of the state. Each plan shall be in writing and shall include charts, maps and statistical information necessary to document prope…
Upon receipt of a plan for the reorganization of districts in any county, the state board of education shall examine the plan. The state board shall approve or disapprove the plan either in whole or in part. If the plan includes any proposed district with territory in more than one county, the state board shall designa…
1. Within sixty days after receipt of approval by the state board of education of the reorganization plan or part thereof, the county clerk shall submit the question in each proposed school district wholly within the county or which has been designated by the state board of education as belonging to the county. The not…