This is the unedited e-mail sent from Virginia-based Imagine Schools CEO Dennis Bakke to his top executives and schools principals.

For Sunday’s Post-Dispatch story, go HERE. 

From: Dennis Bakke
Sent: Thu 9/4/2008 10:26 AM
To: #DL All School Developers; #DL All National Principals; #DL…

The St. Louis Public Schools will host open houses at each magnet and “choice” school from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, October 10.

Students and families will be able to meet teachers and staff, tour facilities and pick up applications.

Applications…

About 70 dignitaries and educators gathered this morning to officially open Confluence Academy’s new downtown high school.

It is the 3,000-student charter school network’s fourth campus in St. Louis, and has been at least two years coming. Confluence Preparatory Academy shared…

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.…

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan warned today that he expects states and school districts to spend incoming stimulus money on true innovation, not the “status quo.”

Moreover, schools that do not spend the money on reform, he said, will not…

The Maplewood Richmond Heights School District will hold an open house from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 5.

Visitors can meet school teachers and principals at each school.

Here is the district’s news release:

MRH superintendent Dr. Linda Henke notes this event is…

The state board of education’s committee to search for a new education commissioner will meet for the first time at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Jefferson City.

The board hopes to select a new commissioner by mid-summer to replace D. Kent King…

IMPERIAL — Rudy Duran, the superintendent of the Windsor School District in Jefferson County who was placed on paid administrative leave this week, has hired lawyer Chet Pleban to represent him and has asked for a public hearing on any…

The schools that never close closed todayWednesday.

New City School, in the Central West End, hasn’t had a snow day in three, four, maybe five years, said Tom Hoerr, head of school there. But this time, he worried the morning roads…

Leaders from across the state remembered D. Kent King, Missouri’s education commissioner, today:

“I just never saw him down; he was always cheerful. He never retreated from anything. He fought this illness for such a long time, very courageously.” - Jean…