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04.23.2009 2:08 pm

St. Louis Public Schools hold public planning meeting and no-holds-barred question-and-answer session

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Get answers to your city school questions — and free breakfast — at Vashon High School this Saturday.

St. Louis Public will hold its final long-range planning community forum from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, at Vashon High, 3035 Cass…

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03.12.2009 10:27 am

St. Louis Public board votes tonight on closing schools

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis should know tonight which schools will close in the city school district.

The three-member special administrative board that runs the St. Louis Public Schools will vote tonight on a proposal to close 17 of the district’s 85 schools, 14…

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02.26.2009 11:57 am

St. Louis Public superintendent not expected to close all 29 schools

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The St. Louis Public Schools superintendent will present his school closure recommendations to the board and public at tonight’s 6 p.m. meeting at Gateway Middle, off North Jefferson Avenue at Gateway Drive.

But it is not expected that Superintendent Kelvin Adams…

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02.05.2009 5:32 pm

Close 29 schools? Save $22 million a year

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis Public Schools would save at least $22 million a year if the board chooses to close all 29 schools, according to a staff report given to the district’s administrative board this afternoon.

The work session, called in part to…

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12.22.2008 4:22 pm

St. Louis teachers say Bah, Humbug to Administrative Board

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

On the first day of Christmas (break) the American Federation of Teachers/St. Louis didn’t present a partridge in a pear tree to the St. Louis Public Schools’ Special Administrative Board. But they did give the board the bird. So to speak.

Upset over…

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10.17.2008 11:06 am

And you think your 401 (k) has taken a hit…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Enos Moss, chief financial officer for the St. Louis Public Schools, has analyzed the  investments in the district’s retirement fund. What he found ain’t pretty.

According to the numbers crunched by Moss, the investments of six of the fund’s 25 equity…

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10.08.2008 2:55 pm

Bon Appetit! SLPS puts its best food forward

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Presentation of the main entree

Presentation of the main entree

In town for its two-day monthly meeting, the State Board of Education stopped by Clyde C. Miller Career Academy (1000 N. Grand) Wednesday for lunch, the first stop on an afternoon spent touring schools spread across…

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09.02.2008 5:11 pm

Obama-McCain; Cardinals-Cubs; Elected SLPS Board-Special Administrative Board

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

An assessment of the Special Administrative Board by the elected St. Louis School Board landed in the in-box a couple of hours ago.

Given the elected board’s enmity toward the appointed panel that assumed power in last year’s state intervention, it was pretty…

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08.19.2008 4:26 pm

SLPS supe search sails into September

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Special Administrative Board hoped this week to unveil the names of the finalists vying to become the eighth superintendent of the St. Louis Public Schools – some in a cameo role — in a little over five years.

Ideally, the board was shooting for…

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