Students already are signing up to attend Montana’s new public charter schools — the Board of Public Education approved a whopping 19 of them this year, and more are on the way. Doug Reisig, with the Montana Quality Education Coalition, said more applications will be submitted this summer to the Montana Board of Public Education. […] The post Montana students signing up for public charter schools appeared first on Daily Montanan.
A water-rights dispute that has drawn the attention of all three branches of Montana government threatens to hurt Montana’s largest industry — agriculture — and public education. A decision by the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation to claim water rights on a parcel of state trust land in eastern Gallatin County has triggered […] The post Water’s for fightin’: DNRC decision could undermine state land use, agriculture in Montana appeared first on Daily Montanan.