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09.30.2009 1:52 pm

Riverview Gardens schools seek superintendent. Singular.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In 2007, the Riverview Gardens School Board, reeling from multiple misspending scandals, dumped wayward chief Henry Williams, and put two top administrators in his place.

Those superintendents, Rhonda Key and Natalie Thomas, have led the district for two-and-a-half years, garnering both…

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05.26.2009 2:33 pm

State Board to rule on Riverview Gardens School accreditation

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It looks like the Riverview Gardens School District will have one more year to shape up.

The state department of education is set to recommend on Thursday that the north St. Louis County district get one more year to gain provisional…

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03.31.2009 4:22 pm

Riverview Gardens schools to cut $7.2 million in total

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Riverview Gardens School District will cut $7.2 million in total out of next year’s budget, including 121 jobs, the district just said.

More than $6 million will come from the job cuts, the district said, and another $1 million will come…

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03.31.2009 12:33 pm

Senate votes on Riverview Gardens funding bill

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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JEFFERSON CITY — The Senate gave first-round approval today to a bill that would correct an error in the funding calculations for the Riverview Gardens District.

Sen. Tim Green, D-Spanish Lakes, sponsored the bill because former superintendent Henry Williams made an…

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03.31.2009 12:28 pm

Riverview Gardens School District cuts 100 teachers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As part of a $1 million cut to next year’s budget, the Riverview Gardens School Board announced today plans to eliminate 121 staff positions — including nearly 100 teachers — before school starts this fall.

The decision is in direct response…

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03.25.2009 6:20 pm

Former Riverview Gardens superintendent Henry Williams barred from casinos

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Henry P. Williams won’t be gambling in Missouri again anytime soon. At least not legally.

The Missouri Gaming Commission voted today to bar the former Riverview Gardens School District superintendent from any casino floor.

“He’s been convicted of I don’t know how…

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03.16.2009 10:51 am

Riverview former Superintendent Williams pays early

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Henry Williams, former superintendent at Riverview Gardens School District, has made his restitution payment, and early this month.

Williams was convicted of funnelling district money into his personal life insurance accounts, and, as part of his sentence, ordered to pay back…

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02.26.2009 4:32 pm

Attorney: Williams doesn’t owe Riverview Gardens as much as court ordered him to pay

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Henry Williams doesn’t owe the Riverview Gardens School District money, his lawyer said this week.

Or at least not as much as prosecutors say, said attorney Thomas J. Carter, in the first public statement to be released on Williams’ behalf since…

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02.19.2009 3:24 pm

McCullough frustrated Williams hasn’t paid restitution

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCullough just called.

He said he’s not surprised former superintendent Henry Williams failed to pay all of his first restitution payment to Riverview Gardens schools.

“Surprised?” McCullough asked. “I’m surprised he paid anything. It is frustrating.”

“We…

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02.19.2009 2:31 pm

Former superintendent Williams shorts Riverview schools of first restitution payment

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Former superintendent Henry Williams has already skipped his first full restitution payment to Riverview Gardens, the school district from which he stole more than $100,000.

Williams, 67, was driven out of the troubled district almost two years ago after being accused…

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