Missouri community college students will pay the same tuition next year that they did this year, according to a plan again brokered by Gov. Jay Nixon.

Presidents of the state’s public two-year schools have agreed for the second year in a…

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded more than $2 million in Charter Schools Program grants to four new Missouri charter schools.

In St. Louis, Shearwater High School, St. Louis Collegiate and Jamaa Learning Center — all slated to open this fall —…

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…

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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,…

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…

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…

A regional building trade association is alleging that a local school district and a local ambulance district broke state law by requiring unionized laborers on recent building projects.

The Kansas and Missouri chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors sued the…