Alex Sakariassen

Montana Board of Regents announces Brock Tessman will take over for outgoing MSU President Waded Cruzado this summer.

After an intense debate on the Senate floor, state lawmakers passed a bill barring disciplinary action against K-12 students refusing to use peers’ preferred names, pronouns.

Three students at MSU and one at the University of Montana have had their F-1 visas revoked. Now a legal challenge seeks to restore the legal status of two of them.

A slate of proposals enhancing state assistance for families and child care workers are continuing to garner bipartisan support in the 2025 Legislature.

The restraining order came just one day after the ACLU of Montana filed a lawsuit on behalf of the students, who were informed via email April 10 that MSU had discovered their F-1 visas were revoked during a mandatory, routine review of international student records.

The high-profile STARS Act cleared its final vote in the Senate, sending a top bipartisan education priority to the governor’s desk.

In a response to the ACLU’s lawsuit, the government pushed back on the notion that it revoked student visas and raised allegations of criminal history.

A court order barring the federal government from revoking two MSU students’ international visas remains in effect pending further action in the ACLU’s lawsuit.

Starting with the now-signed STARS Act, lawmakers this session took several big swings at addressing acute financial challenges in K-12 education.

Board of Public Education greenlights a pitch to streamline statewide academic testing for students with cognitive disabilities.