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Superintendent Arntzen opens stronger connections grant for healthy students

News from OPI HELENA — Superintendent Elsie Arntzen is opening the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) Stronger Connections Grant Program on March 27 through Montana’s digital Egrants system. In June 2022 the federal congressional BSCA awarded the Office of Public Instruction (OPI) $4.8 ...

Free workshops offered

News from Helping Hands Fund RONAN — As part of the 0-5 Flathead Reservation-Lake County Coalition’s training series, “Defining Domains Of Wellness In Self Care” will be presented Friday, March 31, from noon to 3 p.m., at SAFE Harbor, 63506 U.S. Highway 93. Facilitating these ses...

What teacher licensing looked like in 2022 What teacher licensing looked like in 2022

MONTANA — A Montana Office of Public Instruction report released Friday shows notable decreases in 2022 in the number of newly licensed teachers and those obtaining emergency employment authorizations following significant spikes in 2021. According to OPI’s report, the agency approved 1,207 ne...

Superintendent Arntzen prioritizes school safety

News from the MT Office of Public Instruction HELENA – Superintendent Elsie Arntzen continues to prioritize school safety as a pathway to student success. Incidents of violence and threats cause great distress within Montana schools and the communities. “Family and community support is th...

How Montana is trying to solve its struggles with teacher pay

MONTANA — Olivia DeJohn laughs as she chalks up having found a classroom she loves so early in her teaching career to serendipity. She teaches second grade at Missoula’s Paxson Elementary School, a job she quips “fell into my lap.” She did her student teaching at Paxson while getting ...

OPI works to minimize the impacts of youth homelessness

News from the Montana Office of Public Instruction HELENA — Superintendent Elsie Arntzen continues to focus on Montana’s homeless youth through federal grant dollars that fund basic needs for families, research, and other learning programs. The American Rescue Plan-Homeless Children Youth (A...

‘Safe Schools Summit’ scheduled

News from the Jeremy Bullock Memorial Trust BUTTE — All of us at the Jeremy Bullock Memorial Trust, including Jeremy’s parents, are devastated by the news of another mass shooting at an elementary school where nineteen children and two teachers will never come home. We are heartbroken for th...

Superintendent Arntzen ensures school meal assistance

News from the Office of Public Instruction HELENA — Superintendent Elsie Arntzen and the Office of Public Instruction (OPI) are continuing to offer students nutrition assistance programs. The state-administered national school lunch and breakfast programs and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)...

Code Girls United receives coding grant Code Girls United receives coding grant

News from Code Girls United KALISPELL — Code Girls United, based out of Kalispell and operating after school programs throughout Montana in person and online, was awarded a $50,000 state contract for a Tribal Computer Coding Pilot Project. The grant award was the result of legislation signed by...

National Missing Children’s Poster Contest announced

News from OPI HELENA — Superintendent Elsie Arntzen and Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced the theme for this year’s National Missing Children’s Poster contest is: “Bringing Our Missing Children Home.” The contest is open to all Montana fifth-grade students. This is ...


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