Craig Glover, president of the Confluence Academy charter school board, said this morning that founding board member and state Senator Jeff Smith resigned from the board last week.
Smith has been shadowed by questions about his unsuccessful 2004 Congressional campaign, in…
Three proposed St. Louis charter schools got $50,000 from the Walton Family Foundation to help them plan their schools, the state charter school association announced this week.
The Active Minds Institute received $10,000 for a school set to open K-3 in…
The president of the board of Ethel Hedgeman Lyle Academy announced tonight that the charter school will be allowed to exist for at least one more year.
The troubled academy’s sponsor, Missouri Baptist University, had told the school that the university would…
A Kansas City charter school leader will run the state’s charter school association.
The Missouri Charter Public School Association has named Cheri Shannon as its incoming executive director. Shannon is currently the superintendent of University Academy in Kansas City.
She begins work…
Got an e-mail last night from Jay Walsh, communications director for WikimediaFoundation.org, the parent group for Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia.
Jay didn’t respond to my question about the death threat prank posted on the Langston Hughes entry on Wikipedia against the…
Leaders at Lift For Life Academy, a charter school just south of downtown St. Louis, are investigating a threat against the school that surfaced this morning — on Wikipedia.
The threat, written in bold all-capital letters in the middle of the…
The school-choice engine is already warming up this year.
In just one of many indicators to come, please see Exhibit A: this new video from The Children’s Education Alliance of Missouri.
The Alliance is run by Laura…
The Can! Academy of St. Louis, a charter school on Goodfellow Boulevard that targeted high school drop-outs, will not reopen this coming fall.
The Missouri state board of education asked the school to close at the end of last school year, citing…
Aaron North, director of the Missouri Charter Public School Association, will step down in March
Aaron North, executive director of the state’s charter school association, is stepping down March 31.
North, who was the first director of the Missouri Charter Public School…
