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…

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…

Jeff Smith

JEFFERSON CITY — Mo. Sen. Jeff Smith had an op-ed piece about education reform in the Beacon on Tuesday:

It is illogical for a 30-year teaching veteran whose students invariably make little academic progress to make twice what a third-year…

JEFFERSON CITY — The Senate spent all morning talking education, and it still hasn’t gotten through the whole discussion.

It was debating a bill, sponsored by President Pro Tem Charlie Shields, that would allow virtual classes and change how the school…

The effort to force St. Louis Public School leaders to sell their old school buildings to charter schools just got some teeth.

Five Jeff City legislators — from very different walks of life — will gather Monday morning to talk about Senate…

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…