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’.
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.
Enrollment in Montana's K-8 public schools is down nearly 4% this Fall, according to numbers released by the state's Superintendent of Public Instruction. Homeschool numbers, meanwhile, are up by almost 63%.
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.
Montana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen held a ZOOM seminar on Tuesday for education officials throughout the state presented by Dr. Patrick Barkey, Director of the University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research.
It’s almost as if Montana Office of Public Instruction Superintendent Elsie Arntzen was channeling the fictional character ‘Cool Hand Luke’ who coined the phrase ‘What we have here is failure to communicate’.
Montana’s Superintendent of the Office of Public Instruction, Elsie Arntzen, says she is tired of being bypassed by outgoing Governor Steve Bullock on a matter as important as his guidance on opening the state’s public schools.