JoVonne Wagner

1 week ago | bozemandailychronicle.com | JoVonne Wagner |Katie Fairbanks

Voters in five of Montana’s largest public school districts on Tuesday delivered several key successes in local efforts to increase the amount of money flowing to classrooms via local levies. Yet in some communities, requests to bolster funding for school security and help hold the line on general fund budgets hit hard by inflation, fluctuating enrollment and the expiration of pandemic-era federal aid fell flat.

1 week ago | belgrade-news.com | JoVonne Wagner |Katie Fairbanks

Voters in five of Montana’s largest public school districts on Tuesday delivered several key successes in local efforts to increase the amount of money flowing to classrooms via local levies. Yet in some communities, requests to bolster funding for school security and help hold the line on general fund budgets hit hard by inflation, fluctuating enrollment and the expiration of pandemic-era federal aid fell flat.

1 week ago | montanafreepress.org | JoVonne Wagner |Katie Fairbanks |Alex Sakariassen

Voters in five of Montana’s largest public school districts on Tuesday delivered several key successes in local efforts to increase the amount of money flowing to classrooms via local levies. Yet in some communities, requests to bolster funding for school security and help hold the line on general fund budgets hit hard by inflation, fluctuating enrollment and the expiration of pandemic-era federal aid fell flat.

1 week ago | nbcmontana.com | JoVonne Wagner |Katie Fairbanks |Alex Sakariassen

According to initial election results from around the state, school districts in Missoula, Bozeman, Helena and Kalispell all won voter approval for modest to sizable increases to their schools’ general operating funds. But in Belgrade, similar bids for additional support at the elementary and high school levels failed, as did the Helena schools’ requested increases for technology funding.

2 weeks ago | montanafreepress.org | Matt Hudson |Katie Fairbanks |JoVonne Wagner

Montana State Librarian Jennie Stapp is cautiously optimistic that an annual grant that benefits public libraries across the state will be fully funded amid turmoil at the federal agency that distributes the money. Right now, Stapp said she received word that the state would receive at least half of its typical grant, which comes from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, or IMLS.