One true measure of the struggling economy is seeing how many students can’t afford to buy school lunches.  The federal government offers a free and reduced lunch program to qualifying students, and more and more of them are signing up.

But…

The Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls Club, which has served the community for more than 40 years, will administer the in-school mentoring program Mentor St. Louis has offered in some city schools for nearly 15 years, the groups announced today.

Mentor…

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…

Today, we reported that St. Louis Public Schools unveiled a draft of its accountability plan to regain state accreditation within two years.  But when they gave the draft to its special administrative board Tuesday night, they said the details wouldn’t…

Here’s a statement from St. Louis Public Schools regarding a shooting that happened outside Sumner High yesterday.  We first reported it yesterday on the Crime Beat Blog. We’re checking to see if there have been any arrests.

At approximately 3:00pm on…

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…

One example: This letter from Catholic school parent Lawrence Barker, after he read about city students’ very poor rate of access to good public schools.

I’ve edited it for brevity.

Several weeks ago I met Kelvin Adams, the new St. Louis Public…

Last week, the U.S. secretary of education and the president of one of the country’s largest teachers union came to St. Louis, with much fanfare, and spoke with other state and local leaders at Lexington elementary.

(NOT Clay Elementary, which I…

Like it or not, William V. Roberti helped St. Louis Public get its budget in the black.

The infamous biz exec ran the district in 2003-04, and is still hated here today for “skeletonizing” St. Louis Public, as I’ve heard some…