Chris Nicastro

(Updated at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 17, with news conference)Margie Vandeven may be Missouri’s new commissioner for elementary and secondary education, but she’ll…

When Chris Nicastro was chosen as Missouri’s education commissioner in 2009, her experience with school districts in north St. Louis County was cited as a…

(Updated with interviews from all candidates.)The Missouri state board of education has narrowed to five the field of candidates seeking to become the…

The Missouri state board of education has a field of 14 candidates from which to choose the state’s new commissioner of elementary and secondary…

As the appointed board that runs the new Normandy Schools Collaborative is about to take on new responsibilities for personnel decisions and improved…

It’s an open question whether the Ferguson Commission will produce ground-breaking changes or a report that gathers dust on a shelf. But it’s indisputable…

Missouri’s Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Chris Nicastro has tendered her resignation as of December 2014 and there will be an…

After complaints from teachers and others about how the initial year of the Normandy Schools Collaborative has gone so far, the state board of education…

JEFFERSON CITY -- The Missouri state board of education voted Tuesday to put the search for a new commissioner on a slower track, then had a lengthy…

Updated 1:25 p.m. Wednesday with letter from MNEA president:Amid indications that the Missouri state board of education may choose a new commissioner next…