COLUMBIA — A group of public school teachers in Missouri is preparing a class action lawsuit after budget cuts forced a University of Missouri System program to cut their positions.
Three teachers from Columbia and two from Mexico are among the 45 who were fired from the Missouri Virtual Instruction Program, or MoVIP, three months into their one-year teaching contracts. MoVIP is an online education program created by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to provide academic credit to students who have special needs that prevent them from attending traditional schools.
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