Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH
08.18.2009 11:51 am

Columbia school won’t let boy bring service dog to class

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Carter Kalbfleisch's dog, Corbin

Carter and Corbin Kalbfleisch

Five-year-old Carter Kalbfleisch has autism. His service dog, Corbin, helps him make it through the day.

Carter is supposed to start pre-kindergarten on Monday. But now the school, Columbia elementary in Illinois’ Columbia Community School District #4, won’t…

  • Comments (71)
  • Email this
04.23.2009 2:08 pm

St. Louis Public Schools hold public planning meeting and no-holds-barred question-and-answer session

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Get answers to your city school questions — and free breakfast — at Vashon High School this Saturday.

St. Louis Public will hold its final long-range planning community forum from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, at Vashon High, 3035 Cass…

  • Comments (1)
  • Email this
03.25.2009 6:20 pm

Former Riverview Gardens superintendent Henry Williams barred from casinos

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Henry P. Williams won’t be gambling in Missouri again anytime soon. At least not legally.

The Missouri Gaming Commission voted today to bar the former Riverview Gardens School District superintendent from any casino floor.

“He’s been convicted of I don’t know how…

  • Comments (4)
  • Email this
03.16.2009 10:51 am

Riverview former Superintendent Williams pays early

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Henry Williams, former superintendent at Riverview Gardens School District, has made his restitution payment, and early this month.

Williams was convicted of funnelling district money into his personal life insurance accounts, and, as part of his sentence, ordered to pay back…

  • Comments (7)
  • Email this
03.06.2009 4:43 pm

Windsor District superintendent placed on leave wants a public hearing

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

IMPERIAL — Rudy Duran, the superintendent of the Windsor School District in Jefferson County who was placed on paid administrative leave this week, has hired lawyer Chet Pleban to represent him and has asked for a public hearing on any…

  • Comments (1)
  • Email this
03.03.2009 4:48 pm

Rockwood superintendent Craig Larson announces retirement

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rockwood superintendent Craig Larson announced his retirement to staff today.  He’ll retire at the end of next school year.  Larson, 60, has been superintendent of Rockwood since 2003 and has been in education since 1972.  Here’s the text of his…

  • Comments (3)
  • Email this
02.26.2009 4:32 pm

Attorney: Williams doesn’t owe Riverview Gardens as much as court ordered him to pay

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Henry Williams doesn’t owe the Riverview Gardens School District money, his lawyer said this week.

Or at least not as much as prosecutors say, said attorney Thomas J. Carter, in the first public statement to be released on Williams’ behalf since…

  • Comments (3)
  • Email this
02.19.2009 3:24 pm

McCullough frustrated Williams hasn’t paid restitution

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCullough just called.

He said he’s not surprised former superintendent Henry Williams failed to pay all of his first restitution payment to Riverview Gardens schools.

“Surprised?” McCullough asked. “I’m surprised he paid anything. It is frustrating.”

“We…

  • Comments (3)
  • Email this
02.19.2009 2:31 pm

Former superintendent Williams shorts Riverview schools of first restitution payment

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Former superintendent Henry Williams has already skipped his first full restitution payment to Riverview Gardens, the school district from which he stole more than $100,000.

Williams, 67, was driven out of the troubled district almost two years ago after being accused…

  • Comments (19)
  • Email this
11.14.2008 12:16 pm

Riverview Gardens deposed superintendent Henry Williams calls reporters names, slaps a microphone to the ground

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Henry Williams, the deposed superintendent of Riverview Gardens schools who was accused of stealing from the district more than a year ago, tried to avoid TV cameras this morning, leaving court after his sentencing was delayed.

But reporters caught up to Williams anyway.

He…

  • Comments Off
  • Email this