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Charter Schools

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2011

    Teachers Union Case v. Charter School District Going to MO Supreme Court

    Teachers' rights to bargain collectively in Missouri are now headed to the state supreme court.​Are Missouri school boards required to collectively bargain with unions representing their faculties -- and, even more importantly, to do so in good faith?That's the question now heading to the Missouri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    St. Louis To Get Three New Charter Schools

    ​Mayor Francis Slay yesterday announced the addition of three more charter school options for St. Louis families, just in time for the coming school year. In announcing the new schools, Slay said that charter schools are necessary as the St. Louis Public School District continues to re-earn its ac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Charter School Comes to South City

    ​A new, free, college-prep-focused charter school set to open next year in south city has just secured a chunk of government money. South City Preparatory Academy received a grant of $125,000 from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education as part of the Federal Charter Schools ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    New Plans to Ax More St. Louis Public Schools, Create More Charters

    Is our children learning?​The charter school movement is continuing to gain steam in St. Louis -- raising the question of whether a day might come when traditional public schools cease to exist in the city. Over the weekend, a plan to close more poorly performing public schools and create mor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    Carondelet Leadership Academy to Open in August

    Carondelet Leadership Academy (CLA), a new charter school, will be opening in (where else) Carondelet next fall, in the old St. Boniface school at 7604 Michigan Avenue. The school will start out with 300 students in kindergarten through fifth grade but will expand up through eighth grade in future y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    City Schools Lift Property Deed Restriction

    Rick Sullivan, Melanie Adams and Richard Gaines -- the Special Administrative Board (SAB) of the St. Louis Public School District -- last evening lifted the controversial deed restriction on the sale of its shuttered school buildings.The 100-year restriction was adopted by the SAB in December 2007 a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    Show-Me Institute Backers Go After City School District

    Show-Me InstituteBevis Schock, plaintiff in a 1st Amendment case against the city schoolsMillionaire-about-town Rex Sinquefeld and attorney Bevis Schock filed a First Amendment lawsuit Wednesday against the St. Louis Public Schools' Special Administrative Board. Sinquefeld and Schock take issue with ... More >>

  • News

    February 18, 2009

    RFT readers weigh in on charter schools, the flu, barfing and artery-clogging food. What fun!

    Show-Me InstituteBevis Schock, plaintiff in a 1st Amendment case against the city schoolsMillionaire-about-town Rex Sinquefeld and attorney Bevis Schock filed a First Amendment lawsuit Wednesday against the St. Louis Public Schools' Special Administrative Board. Sinquefeld and Schock take issue with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    Ban Charter Schools, Says School Board Member to City

    Last Friday, St. Louis Public Schools' Elected School Board member David Jackson Jr. sent a formal request to three city aldermen asking them to introduce legislation barring any more charter schools from opening in the city. "Currently charter schools in the city deflect approximately $75 million d ... More >>

  • News

    February 11, 2009

    "I Want That School:" Charter schools long to find a home in dormant St. Louis classrooms

    Last Friday, St. Louis Public Schools' Elected School Board member David Jackson Jr. sent a formal request to three city aldermen asking them to introduce legislation barring any more charter schools from opening in the city. "Currently charter schools in the city deflect approximately $75 million d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    St. Louis Public Schools' 100-Year Deed Restriction Bans Charter Schools From Setting Up Shop in the City's Abandoned Classrooms

    Rhonda Broussard went out shopping in late 2007 for a building to house the St. Louis Language Immersion Schools, a set of French- and Spanish-speaking public charter schools she plans to open this fall. Broussard pulled up in front of the old Hodgen Elementary School, a brick Italianate structure i ... More >>

  • News

    June 6, 2007

    A Tizzy Over Lizzie

    School board members duke it out over a no-bid contract awarded to St. Louis radio talk show host Lizz Brown.

  • News

    September 12, 2001

    The Big Fix

    Public schools are broke all over, so why are only St. Louis and Kansas City getting charter schools?

  • News

    May 23, 2001

    The Parent Trap

    Why we shouldn't test public schools in a vacuum

  • News

    March 15, 2000

    Chartering a Course Through Murky Waters

    Charter-school proponents are paddling as fast as they can; plus, other St. Louis follies and foibles

  • News

    December 29, 1999

    The Dogs Bark, The Caravan Moves On

    St. Louis comings and goings in anno Domini 1999

  • News

    October 27, 1999

    THE CAPEMAN

    Cape Girardeau state Sen. Peter Kinder takes more than an academic interest in St. Louis' public schools

  • News

    July 21, 1999

    SCHOOLS WITHOUT RULES

    Controversy exposes folly of charter-mania

  • News

    July 21, 1999

    CHECK THAT CHARTER

    The city school board files suit to block the opening of St. Louis' first charter school

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