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11.20.2009 10:59 am

Nixon announces tuition freeze in community colleges, too

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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11.19.2009 2:28 pm

Three St. Louis charter schools get federal grants

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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 —…

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11.19.2009 10:06 am

Freebie Of The Day: Vote for your school, earn $100K

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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11.04.2009 12:08 pm

Free and reduced school lunch numbers rising, districts seeing the need

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

One true measure of the struggling economy is seeing how many students can’t afford to buy school lunches.  The federal government offers a free and reduced lunch program to qualifying students, and more and more of them are signing up.

But…

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11.02.2009 4:26 pm

President of Missouri State University to step down next year

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Michael Nietzel, the president of Missouri State University, has announced that he will step down from his post by December 2010 - or earlier if his replacement is ready to start before then - for various personal and professional reasons.

Nietzel,…

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10.28.2009 2:13 pm

The nightclub responds — and students to hold press conference this afternooon

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Washington University student leaders will hold a press conference at 3:30 this afternoon to announce their next steps in addressing the incident in which six black seniors were denied entrance to a Chicago nightclub. Students have considered a range of responses…

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10.27.2009 5:06 pm

Congressman Clay asks Justice Department for a “thorough and timely” inquiry into Chicago nightclub incident

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Missouri, has joined the chorus of voices asking for a swift and thorough inquiry into the Chicago nightclub incident in which six black students were turned away from the door, ostensibly because of a “baggy…

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10.23.2009 12:01 pm

UM Curators meeting via tweets

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Like most of you, I am not at the University of Missouri Board of Curators meeting in Columbia today. But I am listening in to parts of it through a live audio stream. And for the first time, I am also…

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10.22.2009 12:04 pm

Wesminster College, UMSL commemorate 20th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The "Breakthrough" sculpture on Westminster College's campus. The sculpture is made from sections of the Berlin Wall.

Westminster College and UMSL will “tear down this wall” next month as they commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

It…

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10.21.2009 5:18 pm

St. Louis schools want feedback on accountability plan

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Today, we reported that St. Louis Public Schools unveiled a draft of its accountability plan to regain state accreditation within two years.  But when they gave the draft to its special administrative board Tuesday night, they said the details wouldn’t…

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