Mark LaTurner has been named assistant principal at Soaring Heights Elementary, and Leslie Coleman will be the next assistant principal at Irving Elementary, the Joplin School District announced ...

Mar. 30—The Joplin School District earlier this month announced several leadership changes at schools and within the central office. —Tracy Newell has been named the principal of North Middle ...

The twister that laid waste to much of Joplin in May hit the school system especially hard: ... "These children don't have a home to live in," said Irving Elementary School's principal, ...

Sara Jackson has been named interim assistant principal at Irving Elementary School in Joplin, ... Joplin, MO (64801) Today. Mainly clear skies. Low 76F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph ...

About 3,000 Joplin schoolchildren are hitting the books and having fun as summer school kicked off on Wednesday. Jaxon Friend, 6, said he and his friends played with a parachute on their first day ...

School doors open in Joplin, Mo., three months after deadly tornado. By ABC News. August 17, 2011, 8:34 AM. Aug. 17, 2011 -- For a town desperately seeking a return to some sense of normalcy, the ...