One of the state’s largest teachers unions will sit down today with Missouri charter school leaders for the first time.

A committee of the 35,000-member Missouri National Education Association has decided to update its position on charters, the once-experimental independent public schools,…

Confluence Academy is moving its high school downtown.

Confluence Preparatory Academy used to share a building with one of the charter school network’s elementary schools. But it’s moving this summer into the former TWA Reservation Center, at 310 North 15th Street, across…

Two more charter schools have been cleared to open in St. Louis.

The state board yesterday approved an elementary, the Grand Community School, and a middle school, KIPP St. Louis.

Both schools aim to target at-risk students in predominantly minority areas.

Grand Community…

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…