Montana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen spoke to KGVO News on Tuesday about over $5 million in funding for school breakfasts and lunches from the United States Department of Agriculture.
Superintendents from all nine of Montana’s AA School Districts signed a letter dated December 6 stating that ‘we express no confidence in your leadership as Montana’s chief public school officer’.
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte announced on Tuesday afternoon that the Montana Department of Health and Human Services has issued an emergency rule to ‘promote the role of parents as the ultimate decision makers on matters pertaining to the health of their children’.
With fall and a new post-COVID school year on the way, KGVO spoke to Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen on a variety of topics, including masks, COVID vaccinations and millions of dollars in ARP funding.
Montana’s Superintendent of Public Instructions Elsie Arntzen was on Talk Back on Thursday to discuss a number of issues, but primarily the response to numerous questions to her office about Critical Race Theory, and its place in Montana’s Public Schools
The U.S. Department of Education, despite a plea from Montana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen, denied her request to utilize local assessments instead of the federally mandated statewide test, even after a challenging COVID 19 school year.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen said on Tuesday that she testified in support of HB 25, a bill that would rectify decades of unequal education services for students in residential psychiatric treatment facilities.
The Montana State Office of Public Instruction announced recently that Governor Bullock has released funds for schools, both for public schools and some funding for private schools, as well.