Just one more note on Obama’s message to U.S. schoolchildren, delivered yesterday.
Karl Frank, a board member at the Mehlville School District in south St. Louis County, decided to keep his kids home from school yesterday to watch the speech, as…
No protestors picketed Bunche International Studies middle school this morning as teachers and staff readied the gymnasium to project the president’s speech, live, onto the white wall between their basketball hoops.
By 10:45, all 309 students were in neat rows of folding…
The brewing debate over President Obama’s planned live telecast to school children Tuesday has bubbled wildly on the Internet and over radio airwaves. But just how much of that debate is reaching the switchboards and in-boxes of local school districts?
Not…
When U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan came to St. Louis in April for a middle-class task force on college affordability, he pledged to streamline and simplify the financial aid application process. Well, voila! Two months later, Duncan has unveiled a…
Update on the school sections of the stimulus package, sent this morning from the Missouri Charter Public School Association:
This week the Senate passed the proposed economic stimulus package from President Obama. This act included additional monies for schools, but not…
St. Louis University students wait to cast a ballot in Tuesday's election at the Busch Student Center.
It’s probably not a huge surprise, but early data from Tuesday’s election shows that young voters (ages 18-29) appear to have turned out in…
A proposed ballot initiative backed by Ward Connerly that would have banned affirmative action in state hiring and higher education did not make the November ballot in Missouri earlier this year. But it did make it onto ballots in Nebraska…
A picture of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama on a character education poster at UMSL was put back up this afternoon.
Art Leverenz, an UMSL junior, just called me to tell me that Provost Glen Cope sent his class an email today…
The poster in question after Obama's picture had been removed
Here is a quick update on today’s story about the picture of Obama that was removed from an UMSL classroom. First, here are are some pictures of the poster — sans…
