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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Closed schools do not necessarily mean empty ones, I learned yesterday. Selling to charter schools is far from the only option, according to St. Louis Public School leaders.

I spent some of Saturday afternoon with T.D. El-Amin (the Democrat state rep whose…