Annelise Hanshaw
Education Reporter | Missouri IndependentAnnelise Hanshaw writes about education — a beat she has covered on both the West and East Coast while working for daily newspapers in Santa Barbara, California, and Greenwich, Connecticut. A born-and-raised Missourian, she is proud to be back in her home state.
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Six of the 12 schools, including Gateway/Hubert Wheeler in St. Louis, had already been temporarily closed because of staffing issues. -
The new law will expand on efforts by the state’s education department to improve literacy in K-12 schools. -
Eastern District Court of Appeals says Planned Parenthood must produce ‘de-identified’ medical records or otherwise cite exemptions. -
Software problems created a months-long backlog that forced some providers out of business, but Education Commissioner Karla Eslinger said 70% of that backlog has been cleared. -
Bills largely split by partisan divides seek to expand or modify charter school operation in Missouri -
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education believes that lowering a GPA requirement for teachers will improve teacher recruitment and retention without reducing educator quality. -
The trial comes after transgender minors, their families and health-care providers challenged the constitutionality of a 2023 law restricting physicians from prescribing gender-affirming medical care to minors. -
The former caseworker shared hundreds of pages of documents containing details of patient care with Missouri Attorney General’s Office. -
Transgender adolescents say a state law barring them from beginning puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones has caused them harm and should be blocked. -
In one of four cases between a provider of gender-affirming care and the Missouri Attorney General, a judge has ruled that Missouri’s consumer protection law does not authorize Andrew Bailey’s sweeping demands for unredacted records. -
In one of four cases between a provider of gender-affirming care and the Missouri Attorney General, a judge has ruled that Missouri’s consumer protection law does not authorize Andrew Bailey’s sweeping demands for unredacted records. -
The challenge from coalitions of attorneys general, led by Kansas and Missouri, culminated in two preliminary injunctions of the Biden Administration's SAVE Plan on Monday.
