11.20.2009 10:59 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Missouri community college students will pay the same tuition next year that they did this year, according to a plan again brokered by Gov. Jay Nixon.
Presidents of the state’s public two-year schools have agreed for the second year in a…
11.19.2009 4:08 pm
Fifty two people were naturalized as American citizens in a ceremony at Brentwood High School today.
Judge E. Richard Webber presided over the assembly.
“We are making efforts to bring you something extraordinary today,” he said.
David Pratt, minority owner of the…
11.19.2009 10:46 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
From the Missouri Charter Public School Association newsletter:
Academie Lafayette is a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade French immersion charter school in Kansas City.
The school has received numerous honors, including being named a Gold Star School by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education…
11.19.2009 10:06 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Unedited give-away of the day:
The Calling All Communities campaign will award $100,000 to 10 schools across the nation.
Public and private schools, kindergarten through high school, big or small, all are eligible to win. From now through Jan. 15, 2010, individuals 18…
11.17.2009 5:48 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Public School officials have asked teachers to consider taking a temporary pay cut to help make up an $18 million mid-year budget shortage.
The union declined several initial offers — including layoffs, benefit cost increases, and a 5 percent…
11.16.2009 5:02 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A new study says that black students in the St. Louis Public School district who transfer to county schools and remain there “far outperform” their neighborhood- and magnet-school peers by the time they reach 10th grade.
The report, “Boundary Crossing for Diversity,…
11.12.2009 2:40 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The state’s chief of schools has reconvened the Danforth-Freeman committee, to again analyze St. Louis Public School governance and recommend a plan for the future.
The fate of the district’s elected school board now likely rests in the committee’s hands.
At the…
11.10.2009 12:01 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Public School administrators have removed the principal of Sumner High School following a rough week in the hallways.
Sherman Curtis, in his third year as chief, was transferred out of the school after incidents on and off campus in the…
11.03.2009 4:15 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Security guards appear to have used mace appropriately to stop a noon-time fight at Sumner High School, St. Louis Public School officials said this afternoon.
The fight involved eight to 12 students, not the three to four reported earlier, said district…
11.03.2009 1:48 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A noon-time fight at Sumner High School sent as many as two dozen students home after security guards sprayed mace to quell the brawlers.
Freshman Deyon Smith, 15, said he had just thrown his food away, and was about to walk out…