From the Missouri Charter Public School Association newsletter:
Academie Lafayette is a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade French immersion charter school in Kansas City.
The school has received numerous honors, including being named a Gold Star School by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education…
Unedited give-away of the day:
The Calling All Communities campaign will award $100,000 to 10 schools across the nation.
Public and private schools, kindergarten through high school, big or small, all are eligible to win. From now through Jan. 15, 2010, individuals 18…
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,…
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…
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…
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