Fourteen Missouri school districts, including St. Louis Public, Ferguson-Florissant and Wellston schools, will get more than $4 million total in stimulus grants for technology in the classroom and technology-based teaching.
Gov. Jay Nixon announced the grants today at St. Louis Public’s…
It looks like the Riverview Gardens School District will have one more year to shape up.
The state department of education is set to recommend on Thursday that the north St. Louis County district get one more year to gain provisional…
Roughly 250 school evaluators will spread through hundreds of St. Louis Public School classrooms this week, all part of the state’s “comprehensive review” of the unaccredited district.
St. Louis Public and the state’s department of education will hold a press conference…
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…
The state board of education’s committee to search for a new education commissioner will meet for the first time at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Jefferson City.
The board hopes to select a new commissioner by mid-summer to replace D. Kent King…
Leaders from across the state remembered D. Kent King, Missouri’s education commissioner, today:
“I just never saw him down; he was always cheerful. He never retreated from anything. He fought this illness for such a long time, very courageously.” - Jean…
D. Kent King, the state’s top education official, has died.
This note went out early this afternoon, from the department he oversaw, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, in Jefferson City:
From: DESE Public Information
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:34 PM
To:…
