Increasing bear sightings in Missoula residential neighborhoods has caused MCPS officials to ask parents to accompany their children to and from bus stops.
With air quality at the ‘Unhealthy’ stage in Missoula and ‘Very Unhealthy’ south of Missoula into Hamilton, the Missoula City-County Health Department is recommending that school children be kept inside.
After Dr. Rob Watson resigned as MCPS Superintendent and moved on to another education post in Helena, the Board of Trustees asked Watson’s second in command Russ Lodge to be the interim superintendent for the upcoming school year.
Every three years, the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services tests the drinking water in Missoula Public Schools through the Department of Environmental Quality.