Citizens for Missouri’s Children held its 25th anniversary luncheon at the Chase Park Plaza today, and its keynote speaker was not a child advocate, but an economist with the Minnesota Federal Reserve.
Rob Grunewald and his upper Midwest colleagues have been…
Parents as Teachers, the St. Louis-founded early childhood education program that’s now replicated in countries around the world, got a rotten egg in advance of its 25th birthday.
The Missouri branch of the organization will have to pare down its programs…
Today’s metro page article chronicled the state’s current efforts to revise its 17-year-old licensing standards. Stephen Zwolak argued that the standards represent the bare minimum for safety and quality, and don’t address teacher training, pay or current research in child development and the…
The State of Illinois announced last week that it is expanding 50 “Preschool for All” sites and adding 30 more locations to the publicly-funded early childhood education program.
The expansion coincided with the release of another in-depth study connecting long-term economic and…
Former St. Louis City Police Chief Joe Mokwa has been under intense scrutiny since he was forced to retire this summer after misleading the city police board about exactly when he knew his adult daughter was getting extended test drives and…
