Fifteen nurses served their last official day with St. Louis Public Schools Wednesday, remnants of cuts made this summer in an effort to trim $53 million and balance this year’s budget.
But it now looks like the laid-off nurses — 17…
One example: This letter from Catholic school parent Lawrence Barker, after he read about city students’ very poor rate of access to good public schools.
I’ve edited it for brevity.
Several weeks ago I met Kelvin Adams, the new St. Louis Public…
It looks like the U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, will be visiting St. Louis.
Rumors have floated through St. Louis Public — as well as Washington circles — recently.
Then, this morning, St. Louis Judge Jimmie Edwards, who is working with…
It seems some St. Louis Public School teachers did not receive their retroactive raises this past Friday, and aren’t happy about it.
The school board approved a 3 percent raise this spring, retroactive to July 1 last year. Teachers said they…
Everyone loves more arts in public schools, and after detailing his plans for reshaping Central Visual and Performing Arts High School, which I wrote about here, Superintendent Kelvin Adams will be announcing a new arts-integrated themed school on Monday. Here is the press…
Get answers to your city school questions — and free breakfast — at Vashon High School this Saturday.
St. Louis Public will hold its final long-range planning community forum from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, at Vashon High, 3035 Cass…
Politicians and educators are gathering Saturday at Harris-Stowe State University to talk about the “challenges facing education in urban communities.”
The panel, hosted by the Democrats for Education Reform, runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the university’s Emerson Theatre,…
St. Louis should know tonight which schools will close in the city school district.
The three-member special administrative board that runs the St. Louis Public Schools will vote tonight on a proposal to close 17 of the district’s 85 schools, 14…
The St. Louis Public Schools superintendent will present his school closure recommendations to the board and public at tonight’s 6 p.m. meeting at Gateway Middle, off North Jefferson Avenue at Gateway Drive.
But it is not expected that Superintendent Kelvin Adams…
St. Louis Public Schools would save at least $22 million a year if the board chooses to close all 29 schools, according to a staff report given to the district’s administrative board this afternoon.
The work session, called in part to…
