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03.12.2009 10:27 am

St. Louis Public board votes tonight on closing schools

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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02.26.2009 11:57 am

St. Louis Public superintendent not expected to close all 29 schools

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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02.05.2009 5:32 pm

Close 29 schools? Save $22 million a year

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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02.05.2009 1:14 pm

How, readers ask, will St. Louis Public save money by spending it?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Been getting a lot of questions from readers today about the savings to be had if St. Louis Public School leaders end up closing the 29 schools recommended.

One, Al Katzenberger, pointed out that the consultant’s report (available here) says it will…

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02.05.2009 10:01 am

Mother applauds Gateway high students speaking up for their school

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I met Marie Fowler last night, at the St. Louis Public School community forum on closing schools. She’s the mother of two students at Gateway High and one at McKinley CJA.

This morning, she wrote me a note. I thought it…

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01.06.2009 12:44 pm

School closings not connected to academic achievement

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Were rumors a source of energy, the perpetual buzz circulating around the St. Louis Public Schools could wean the planet of its dependency on fossil fuels.

The latest connects student achievement to the possible closing of as many as 20 St. Louis…

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10.30.2008 9:37 pm

St. Louis board approves firm to oversee school closings

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

After two weeks of wrangling over the terms, the Special Administrative Board overseeing the St. Louis Public Schools Thursday gave MGT of America Inc. the go-ahead to determine which of the district’s buildings should be closed by the start of the next…

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