Security guards appear to have used mace appropriately to stop a noon-time fight at Sumner High School, St. Louis Public School officials said this afternoon.

The fight involved eight to 12 students, not the three to four reported earlier, said district…

A noon-time fight at Sumner High School sent as many as two dozen students home after security guards sprayed mace to quell the brawlers.

Freshman Deyon Smith, 15, said he had just thrown his food away, and was about to walk out…

Fifteen nurses served their last official day with St. Louis Public Schools Wednesday, remnants of cuts made this summer in an effort to trim $53 million and balance this year’s budget.

But it now looks like the laid-off nurses — 17…

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…

The Bayless School Board accepted the resignation of board member Gretchen Iakovidis at a special meeting last week.

Iakovidis resigned because she is moving out of the district, according to a district release.

Her resignation was effective immediately following the Thursday vote.

Iakovidis…

Maplewood Richmond Heights will hold an open house at each school next Sunday, Oct. 18.

Visitors will be able to meet with school principals and teachers from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

The school district’s press release continues:

Each site will offer visitors a chance…

A police manhunt has led officials to lock down St. Philippine Duchesne Catholic School in Florissant, according to a statement just released by the archdiocese.

School officials said they normally keep outside doors locked during the day, but took the extra…

The Missouri state board of education announced today that it will hold a news conference Thursday morning to introduce the state’s new commissioner of education.

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has asked former commissioners of education, members of the…

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…

St. Louis Public’s marketing effort may be working, at least by one indicator.

It seems that fewer city students have applied to transfer to county schools for the 2009-10 school year.

And more county students have applied for transfers to city schools.

The…