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11.20.2009 10:59 am

Nixon announces tuition freeze in community colleges, too

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri community college students will pay the same tuition next year that they did this year, according to a plan again brokered by Gov. Jay Nixon.

Presidents of the state’s public two-year schools have agreed for the second year in a…

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11.17.2009 5:48 pm

St. Louis Public Schools ask teachers to take pay cut

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis Public School officials have asked teachers to consider taking a temporary pay cut to help make up an $18 million mid-year budget shortage.

The union declined several initial offers — including layoffs, benefit cost increases, and a 5 percent…

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11.10.2009 12:01 pm

After rough week, Sumner High School gets new principal

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis Public School administrators have removed the principal of Sumner High School following a rough week in the hallways.

Sherman Curtis, in his third year as chief, was transferred out of the school after incidents on and off campus in the…

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09.10.2009 12:25 pm

Ferguson-Florissant school district to offer early retirements, cut expenses

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Ferguson-Florissant School District will offer early retirements to help trim overspending.

The board of education approved the package last night. It expects as many as 90 employees to participate, saving $25,000 per worker, or more than $2 million total.

CFO Mick Willis…

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09.09.2009 12:28 pm

Schools to be able to broadcast swine flu info, outbreaks, to parents

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Every school in Missouri will soon be able to send parents instant updates about the H1N1 flu through an alert notification system, according to the Missouri School Boards’ Association.

MSBA Executive Director Carter Ward said he knows of no other similar…

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09.09.2009 10:23 am

Mehlville board member kept kids home to listen to Obama speech

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Just one more note on Obama’s message to U.S. schoolchildren, delivered yesterday.

Karl Frank, a board member at the Mehlville School District in south St. Louis County, decided to keep his kids home from school yesterday to watch the speech, as…

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07.10.2009 12:35 pm

SIUC researcher gets White House science award

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

María de las Mercedes Calbi, a physics professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is one of 100 up and coming scientists who were honored by the White House on Thursday as winners of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Awards for…

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07.07.2009 5:09 pm

SEMO gets $2 million federal grant to renovate science labs

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Southeast Missouri State University officials did not get the $37 million to renovate aging science labs that they had hoped for out of a proposed statewide bond issue that failed in the last legislative session.

But the school is rejoicing over…

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06.29.2009 3:45 pm

Smallest tuition increases at private colleges in decades

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

An email that came across my Inbox today is one more piece of proof that private universities have responded to the economic crisis with lower tuition increases than usual.

According to a survey of 350 independent colleges, the average tuition and…

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05.15.2009 2:30 pm

WashU temporarily lifts bottled water ban for graduation day

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If you saw bottles of water being handed out at Washington University’s graduation this morning, your eyes were not deceiving you. While the school does indeed have a ban on bottled water sales and distribution on campus, it temporarily lifted the…

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