Jeff Smith, a Missouri state senator and recently-resigned Confluence Academy board member, has pleaded guilty to two felony charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice related to his 2004 campaign for the U.S. Congress, according to the most recent the Post-Dispatch…
About 70 dignitaries and educators gathered this morning to officially open Confluence Academy’s new downtown high school.
It is the 3,000-student charter school network’s fourth campus in St. Louis, and has been at least two years coming. Confluence Preparatory Academy shared…
Four groups hoping to start charter schools in Kansas City and St. Louis have been awarded $2 million through the U.S. Department of Education, the Missouri Charter Public School Association announced today.
Three — Confluence Academy of the Arts, KIPP St. Louis,…
Rumors — including some left here on The Grade — have suggested Edison, the for-profit school management company, is getting out of the charter school biz. Rather than guess, I called Joe Wise, Edison’s Chief Education Officer, who said Edison is…
