The U.S. Department of Education has awarded more than $2 million in Charter Schools Program grants to four new Missouri charter schools.

In St. Louis, Shearwater High School, St. Louis Collegiate and Jamaa Learning Center — all slated to open this fall —…

From the Missouri Charter Public School Association newsletter:

Academie Lafayette is a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade French immersion charter school in Kansas City.

The school has received numerous honors, including being named a Gold Star School by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education…

The Missouri Charter Public School Association is still looking for teachers and educators to sign up for its yearly conference, next week, Oct. 15-16, in Columbia, Missouri.

The association says the event features a new awards ceremony, education seminars, and presentations including…

Three proposed St. Louis charter schools got $50,000 from the Walton Family Foundation to help them plan their schools, the state charter school association announced this week.

The Active Minds Institute received $10,000 for a school set to open K-3 in…

One of the state’s largest teachers unions will sit down today with Missouri charter school leaders for the first time.

A committee of the 35,000-member Missouri National Education Association has decided to update its position on charters, the once-experimental independent public schools,…

Want to buy a St. Louis Public School building? Not so fast.

The St. Louis Public Schools just spelled out considerations before it will sell old school buildings to charters.

The board voted unanimously last night in closed session to lift deed…

Charter schools will now — at least in theory — be able to buy shuttered St. Louis Public School buildings.

The St. Louis Public School Board voted last night to lift the deed restriction that barred charter groups from buying the…

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,…

A bill just passed by Georgia’s state legislature has perked the ears of Missouri charter school advocates, frustrated with a St. Louis Public School decision to bar charters from buying district buildings.

HB555 passed the Georgia senate, 49 to 1, yesterday.…

A Kansas City charter school leader will run the state’s charter school association.

The Missouri Charter Public School Association has named Cheri Shannon as its incoming executive director. Shannon is currently the superintendent of University Academy in Kansas City.

She begins work…