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04.17.2009 10:52 am

St. Louis Public spells out plan to sell old school buildings

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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04.17.2009 10:30 am

St. Louis Public School Board lifts deed restrictions on charter schools

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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04.01.2009 11:52 am

Sinquefield, Schock sue St. Louis Public Schools to lift building sales deed restrictions

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A Missouri millionaire and a local attorney have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to force St. Louis Public School leaders to sell closed city school buildings to charter schools.

Millionaire Rex Sinquefield and attorney W. Bevis Schock, both school reform…

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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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03.02.2009 1:59 pm

St. Louis Public to sell school buildings to charters? Not so fast

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Legislators expressed hopes at a press conference this morning that they’d be able to get a bill passed forcing the St. Louis Public School Board to lift its deed restriction on the sale of old school buildings, thus allowing charter…

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02.27.2009 3:36 pm

Legislators aim to force St. Louis Public to sell schools to charters

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The effort to force St. Louis Public School leaders to sell their old school buildings to charter schools just got some teeth.

Five Jeff City legislators — from very different walks of life — will gather Monday morning to talk about Senate…

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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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02.17.2009 9:03 pm

St. Louis Public school closure meeting changes dates

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Superintendent Kelvin Adams has asked the St. Louis Public school board for more time as he and his staff get ready to present school closure recommendations to the district’s administrative board.

The meeting to hear Adams’ proposal has been moved to…

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02.17.2009 4:33 pm

School closure meeting date set for St. Louis Public

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Superintendent Kelvin Adams told the St. Louis Public school board moments ago that he would be ready to present his school closure recommendations the evening of Monday, February 23.

(Editor’s note: Later that afternoon, Adams asked for an extention to Thursday,…

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02.12.2009 7:16 am

School building seeks charter school

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Vernon Holliday hopes to find a buyer -- maybe a charter school -- for the school building he owns at 6942 Lansdowne Street. Vernon Holliday bought an old church school on Lansdowne Avenue a while back.

He was hoping it would sell sooner.

“It was a nice building, in a nice area,” Holliday said.

So when he saw the story in yesterday’s paper about St. Louis Public…

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