Panel explores pandemic impacts on Montana public schools

HELENA — As the spring semester dawns across Montana’s public school system, students and educators are continuing to grapple with challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Those challenges range widely, from lack of access to high-speed internet to limits on parental attendance at extracurricular events. But as Baker High School science teacher Linda Rost said Monday afternoon during an online panel, the mental well-being of students should take top priority in the coming weeks and months...