Title XI, EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES

171.028. Four-day school week, charter counties and certain cities — ballot language — filing calendar with department. — 1. The school board of a school district that is located wholly or partially in a county with a charter form of government, or located wholly or partially in …

171.031. Board to prepare calendar — minimum term — opening dates — exemptions. — 1. Each school board shall prepare annually a calendar for the school term, specifying the opening date, days of planned attendance, and providing a minimum term of at least one thousand forty-four …

171.033. Make-up of hours lost or cancelled — exemption, when — waiver for schools, granted when — make-up hours not required for exceptional or emergency circumstances — half-day education programs. — 1. "Inclement weather", for purposes of this section, shall be defined as ice,…

171.034. Provision of food services by school districts eligible to reduce make-up days. — Any school district that is eligible to reduce its requirement to make up days pursuant to subsection 3 of section 171.033 may provide food service on a summer school food service basis if …

171.051. School holidays. — School holidays include Thanksgiving Day, December twenty-fifth, the third Monday in February, July fourth, and may include November eleventh at the discretion of the school district. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 200 § 11-5, A.L. 1969 p. 85, A.L. 2014 S.B. 6…

171.053. Participation in sanctioned program activities, excused absences allowed — state aid, computation for such activities. — 1. The general assembly hereby finds and declares that: (1) The Future Farmers of America Organization (FFA Organization), Family, Career, and Communi…

171.091. Board may provide adult classes out of certain funds. — The school board of any school district in this state may provide for the gratuitous education of persons over twenty years of age, resident in the school district. The gratuitous education, however, shall be provid…

171.096. Board may permit use of school facilities for adult education purposes. — Each school board in the state may, under such terms and conditions as it may determine, permit the use of its buildings and grounds for adult education purposes. ­­-------- (L. 1967 1st Ex. Sess. …

171.097. Background checks for certain adult students — prohibited from enrolling, when. — 1. School districts shall ensure that a state criminal history background check consisting of open records is conducted on any person who is eighteen years of age or older, who is not count…

171.098. Board may authorize sale of class projects to pupils at cost. — The school board in each school district may authorize the sale of any product or item made as a class project or activity from materials purchased with district funds to any pupil enrolled in the schools of…

171.101. Board may provide facilities and services for pupils living on federal lands. — The school board of a seven-director district may provide educational facilities and services for pupils residing on lands acquired by the federal government in the state of Missouri for mili…

171.121. District may be closed and required to transport pupils — apportionment of state aid. — If any district in this state has an average daily attendance of less than fifteen pupils as shown by the records of the last previous school year, the state board of education, after…

171.131. Seventh and eighth grade pupils may be sent to another district — tuition, how paid. — The board of education of any elementary school district may elect to maintain an elementary school in the district for grades one through six only. In that event tuition shall be paid…

171.141. Fraternities and sororities may be barred — enforcement. — 1. As used in this section, a school fraternity or sorority is any organization composed wholly or in part of public school pupils, which seeks to perpetuate itself by taking in additional members from the pupils…

171.151. Daily register required, contents of. — Each public school of the state shall keep a daily register in which shall be entered the name, age, date of entrance and record of attendance of each pupil and the studies pursued by the pupil. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 200 § 11-15, …

171.171. Full credit to be given work completed in accredited schools. — Work completed in schools accredited by the state board of education shall be given full credit in requirements for entrance to and classification in any educational institution supported in whole or in part…

171.181. Preference given Missouri products in making purchase — certain seven-director school districts, board member selling to district prohibited, exceptions, penalty. — In making purchases, the school board, officer, or employee of any school district shall give preference t…

171.185. Materials recovery and recycling facility prohibited, when (city of Chesterfield). — No school district located in any city of the third classification with more than forty-six thousand eight hundred but fewer than forty-seven thousand inhabitants shall operate a materia…

171.410. Program may be taught to first graders, purpose. — 1. Each school district and charter school may annually teach the Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program to first grade students. School districts and charter schools may also teach any substantially similar program of the same qua…