Members of Parkway’s very first graduating class celebrated a reunion on Saturday, with 53 of the class’ remaining 76 graduates gathering at the Double Tree Hotel and Conference Center in Chesterfield. The picture, at left, shows former teacher, Dr. Al…

Here’s something you wouldn’t normally think about — keeping bugs and critters out of schools.  But think about it — if you were a mouse, wouldn’t you skitter on over to a building that has several entrances and exits, cracks…

Some kids get college scholarships for playing football.  Some get them for exceptional talent in music or art.  Marilyn Piccirillo, 18, a senior at Parkway West High School, won a $15,000 college scholarship for her study, “Enterococcal Catheter-Associated Bloodstream Infections:…

In case you missed it, this morning the Today show did a feature about single sex classrooms at Parkway’s Carman Trails Elementary. This was after a story we featured on Feb. 20 about the school.   After the feature, during which…

I just got this from the Parkway School District, which is looking for a few good men and women:

Do you know a volunteer or employee who has provided extraordinary service to the Parkway community? Someone who demonstrates consistent leadership —…

Parkway Schools superintendent Robert Malito sent this memo out to Parkway parents and families this afternoon.  Since everybody seems to focus on preparations in the threat of snow, we thought it was interesting how he points out how parents should…

I’ve heard from three school districts so far that are sending groups of students to Washington D.C. to witness Barack Obama’s inauguration.  Twenty students from Ritenour High School had to raise about $1,300 each to cover the expenses of the three-day…

Anyone with a passing recognition of what teachers put up with on a daily basis will not   begrudge them, for even a moment, the salaries, vacation days and benefits they so richly deserve.

Still, one can understand how the decision to…

Liz Slutzky, the mother of a student at Parkway West Middle School, sent this e-mail out to other parents this week.

She was responding to Edward Weinhaus’s letter asking the Parkway Board for an independent investigation into “Hit A Jew Day.”

Ms. Slutzky…

Moments ago, Parkway School District Superintendent Robert Malito posted a public apology for the actions of the students at Parkway West Middle School following Monday’s student-titled “Hit A Jew Day.”

He begins the letter:

It is with both sadness and a sense of…