The Missouri School Funding Modernization Task Force created by Gov. Mike Kehoe has until Dec. 1 to recommend changes in how public schools are funded.
“We did what they asked of us,” says one parent at the St. Louis school. “There was no hint of a school closure.”
- Monica Obradovic | Post-Dispatch
Despite heightened federal scrutiny of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, St. Louis–area schools and universities continue prioritizing DEI initiatives.
The demolitions would be scheduled for this summer at a cost of about $1 million each.
- Natanya Friedheim | Post-Dispatch
A bill mandating a new grading system also would require districts to pay bonuses to teachers in top-performing schools.
- Blythe Bernhard | Post-Dispatch
High school athletic events and Catholic school open houses have been canceled for this weekend because of the anticipated snowstorm.
- By Sydney Schaefer
Each month, the community nominates their favorite teachers and educators from the St. Louis region to be the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Teacher of the Month. January’s winner is Doug Fite, an English Language Arts (ELA) teacher at Sacred Heart Catholic School in Florissant. Mr. Fite received a…
Ian Roberts worked for St. Louis Public Schools. He was hired by SLPS in 2015 and the Post-Dispatch’s public pay database indicates he worked with the district until 2018.
The SLPS board voted unanimously Wednesday to appoint Robert Harvey to fill the term expiring in April 2027.
The move comes in the wake of controversy over a gender, ethnicity requirement for an MSHSAA board seat.
Ian Roberts worked for St. Louis Public Schools. He was hired by SLPS in 2015 and the Post-Dispatch’s public pay database indicates he worked with the district until 2018.
Nettie Collins-Hart led the district for 10 years as its first Black woman superintendent.
Educators say they hope structured exposure will teach students how to use AI responsibly — and prepare them for the world as the rapidly expanding technology becomes a daily reality.
District officials said they needed more time to evaluate the dozens challenged by a single parent late last year.
Aisha Sultan writes: Missouri’s trapped in a persistent, downward cycle of not investing in public education and losing its brightest and talented young adults because better opportunities lure them elsewhere.
House Bill 2933, filed by Rep. Brad Christ on Tuesday, a south St. Louis County Republican, would allow districts to withdraw from Special School District.
Julie A. Nappier, 54, of Valmeyer, was sentenced to serve a prison term concurrently with a previous sentence for theft from a Columbia, Illinois, district.
The SLU Tuition Promise is for students from families earning up to $60,000 with limited assets.
The 149-page complaint, filed by Attorney General Catherine Hanaway in St. Louis County on Tuesday, adds Missouri to a growing list of states accusing the manufacturers and third-party middlemen of inflating the price of insulin, even as the cost of production declined.
Kimberly Johnson, who served as CFO for less than one year, was placed on leave Wednesday.
In a newsletter Tuesday afternoon, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, or DESE, said it received all requested funds after it submitted "detailed justification" to the federal government on Friday.
SLPS was downgraded to provisionally accredited less than a decade after the district regained full accreditation from the state.
A bill seeking to prevent antisemitism in schools gets another chance this year.
Vivo St. Louis, a publicly funded school, will be designed for teenagers who are recovering from drug or alcohol abuse.
The board has yet to fill a vacancy for its seventh member to replace Ben Conover, who resigned Oct. 20.
Two parents have challenged 60 books over the past few months in an effort to weed out titles they perceive as inappropriate.
Students will have a second week of virtual learning, then a hybrid schedule, after a burst pipe flooded the school.
Parents at the Catholic grade school in south St. Louis say they are stunned by the news.
The branch on South Jefferson has been shut down the past week since the building was damaged during a burglary.
Chief Robert Tracy said it's a "win-win" that a local university can use his expertise from decades of experience in law enforcement.