This week, the 2020 version of this the statewide gathering will meet online, promising “to show Missourians that even though times are uncertain now, we can still come #Together4MOKids.”
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The pandemic’s social isolation lights new fire to a long-running struggle to get everyone in Kansas City connected to the Internet. A look at who’s doing what, and how you can get help, or give help.
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Here’s how to file a claim if you’re one of more than 100,000 Missourians among 6.6 million Americans filing unemployment claims last week.
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If you lost income or health insurance due to COVID-19, you may now qualify for help from the Missouri Department of Social Services.
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In recognition of the unprecedented impact that the COVID-19 virus has had on area schools, communities, and other affiliated organizations, SchoolSmartKC has created a $2 million relief fund.
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As Kansas City enforces its stay home orders, KC health director Rex Archer says it plain: There are “absolutely” undetected COVID-19 cases throughout the city and everyone should act as if they are carrying the virus.
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If we didn’t realize the stakes before, surely we do now. The pandemic of 2020 has peeled back the scars encrusted by generations of inequity. Lessons from a virtual educators’ seminar. “What will you say you did . . .?”
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Here is a list of Missouri state agencies that offer web pages with help for specific needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Evictions may be banned for now, but fear is building over what peril awaits both tenants and landlords on the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A coalition of charitable, business and government partners has joined together to create the Kansas City Regional COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund to address the needs of the Kansas City region's most vulnerable communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Fleets of school buses in Kansas City began retracing neighborhood routes this week, not to pick children up for classes, but to deliver them meals.
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Child Care Aware has opened a childcare referral service especially for first responders, health care workers, and essential personnel.
Read More ...As Kansas City and other jurisdictions invoked shelter-in-place orders for at least a month, plans by most districts to begin food distribution today, March 23, focused on the longer-horizon they had been anticipating.
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As Kansas City prepares for a shelter-at-home order to take effect Tuesday morning, a community crisis is developing in the area’s growing homeless population. Shelter residents are terrified, knowing many are already weak in health and shelters are overwhelmed and unable to provide the space for safe social distancing to protect them.
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Missouri has cleared the way for families and individuals on Medicaid and families receiving child care subsidies to continue receiving that aid as the nation prepares for the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Most area districts have had this week as Spring Break to prepare for food distribution to families during the closed-school days ahead.
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Something to consider as homework for all of us homebound: Fill out your Census. The U.S. Census is providing school materials for teachers and homeschoolers, but the most important lesson is make sure you’re counted.
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Hickman Mills’ new interim superintendent Carl Skinner, currently serves as deputy superintendent of student services. He will succeed Yolanda Cargile, who is leaving to become superintendent of the Center School District.
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