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Education Issues

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Faculty Accused of Helping Kids Cheat; St. Louis Public Schools Investigates

    ​Daily RFT has learned that officials with St. Louis Public Schools will soon conclude a year-long investigation into whether faculty at Herzog Elementary School organized cheating on last year's statewide student assessment tests. Patrick Wallace, district spokesman, confirms that the probe at th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2011

    Implicated By Their Own Words

    ​Daily RFT has learned that officials with St. Louis Public Schools will soon conclude a year-long investigation into whether faculty at Herzog Elementary School organized cheating on last year's statewide student assessment tests. Patrick Wallace, district spokesman, confirms that the probe at th ... More >>

  • 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

    February 10, 2011

    Chipotle Partners with Delta Dental Health Theatre for Kids Nutrition Education

    Chipotle​Among the night spots on Laclede's Landing, there's a theater working to teach St. Louis area kids about oral health. Since 1977 the Delta Dental Health Theatre has been entertaining and educating kids from its stage, surrounded by giant teeth. On March 7, local Chipotle restaurants ... 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

    January 3, 2011

    Organic Ground Beef Recalled

    Organic doesn't mean perfect. 34,000 pounds of organic Nature's Harvest ground beef has been recalled for possible E. coli contamination, according to KTVN in Reno, Nevada. The beef was sold in California, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Washington State.Flights from Newark migh ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 21, 2010

    Jay Wolke: Architecture of Resignation

    Organic doesn't mean perfect. 34,000 pounds of organic Nature's Harvest ground beef has been recalled for possible E. coli contamination, according to KTVN in Reno, Nevada. The beef was sold in California, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Washington State.Flights from Newark migh ... 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 >>

  • Calendar

    February 24, 2010

    Feel the Push

    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

    June 4, 2009

    When It Comes to Firefighter Discrimination Cases, St. Louis Not Alone

    Ousted St. Louis Fire Chief Sherman George could have a friend in Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor. Not that it matters in the short term. Sotomayor's confirmation likely won't come until after the Supreme Court rules on a well-publicized suit in which white and Hispanic firefighters have sued ... 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

    April 1, 2009

    The Good Doctor: William Chignoli, who spent the last decade constructing a safety net for local Hispanics, recently turned 70. But he's far from retiring.

    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

    January 7, 2009

    Class Conscious: St. Louis educators are desperately seeking ways to get kids back in school

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    August 20, 2008

    Books Build Brains

    Brains want books

  • 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.

  • Film

    October 5, 2005

    Goy Gevalt

    In Her Shoes is pretty but useless, a Prada with a broken heel

  • Calendar

    March 23, 2005

    Whither the Believers?

    Make kickoff time for the season opener of the River City Rage

  • News

    January 19, 2005

    The Finger Puppet Brigade

    (2 a.m. Saturday, Geyer Avenue between Ninth and Tenth streets)

  • News

    March 17, 2004

    Hide and Peek

    There's a new Mr. Missouri Leather! Plus: counterfeit-proof White Castle gift certificates; talking crab rangoon with novelist Lynn Messina; and a disturbing SAT flashback.

  • News

    July 9, 2003

    Demolition Man

    To save St. Louis public schools, Bill Roberti and his band of hired guns plan to blow things up. Who'll pick up the pieces when they're gone?

  • Culture

    April 23, 2003

    Tough Stuff

    Blood's riff on the Scarlet Letter is challenging fare

  • News

    February 26, 2003

    Class War

    Marty Rochester wages war against the dumbing-down of public education -- even in the best of schools

  • 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

    August 1, 2001

    Vocal Yokels

    Bosnians give some folks in St. Louis Hills the willies

  • News

    June 20, 2001

    Letters

    Week of June 20, 2001

  • News

    May 23, 2001

    The Parent Trap

    Why we shouldn't test public schools in a vacuum

  • News

    April 11, 2001

    Testing, Testing, Testing

    Missouri's MAP is a fine, thoughtful standardized test. So how come it's wreaking havoc in the schools?

  • News

    March 7, 2001

    First Strike

    Hazelwood schools blocked apartments to protect test scores

  • News

    February 14, 2001

    Put Up or Shut Up

    Candidates must speak clearly about troubled schools

  • 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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