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…

A new study says that black students in the St. Louis Public School district who transfer to county schools and remain there “far outperform” their neighborhood- and magnet-school peers by the time they reach 10th grade.

The report, “Boundary Crossing for Diversity,…

The state’s chief of schools has reconvened the Danforth-Freeman committee, to again analyze St. Louis Public School governance and recommend a plan for the future.

The fate of the district’s elected school board now likely rests in the committee’s hands.

At the…

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…

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…