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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Billionaire financier T. Boone Pickens will headline a two-day Missouri Energy Summit later this week on the campus of the University of Missouri-Columbia. If you don’t have tickets to his presentation yet, you’re out of luck. Or at least, your…

Want to buy a St. Louis Public School building? Not so fast.

The St. Louis Public Schools just spelled out considerations before it will sell old school buildings to charters.

The board voted unanimously last night in closed session to lift deed…

Charter schools will now — at least in theory — be able to buy shuttered St. Louis Public School buildings.

The St. Louis Public School Board voted last night to lift the deed restriction that barred charter groups from buying the…