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Education advocates are hoping for a focus on schools in the 2022 legislative session.
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Missouri’s first all-girls public high school opened six years ago. After ups and downs, eight seniors received Hawthorn’s first diplomas.
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The Opportunity Trust says it wants to improve public education in St. Louis. But its doubters say it has bigger plans it’s not being transparent about.
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After an active first few months of the 2021 legislative session, lawmakers are returning Monday to Jefferson City after a weeklong spring break with several priorities on the agenda of the Republican supermajority.
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The O'Fallon Republican talks about charter school expansion, federal stimulus money and Missouri's photo identification requirement for voting.
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The Webster Groves Democrat talks about a bid to expand charter schools and the challenge of getting kids back to in-person learning.
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The school board's resolution asks for no openings of any public schools until a comprehensive strategy on public education in the city is created. It’s also symbolic.
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Charters don’t get as much local revenue as traditional public schools. They also aren’t subject to the same state ratings.
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The Leadership School won a charter from a divided state school board Thursday and plans to open as an elementary school in north St. Louis County next fall. It will be located somewhere within the boundaries of the provisionally accredited Normandy school district.
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If approved by the Missouri State Board of Education, the Leadership School will open next fall as the first charter school outside St. Louis or Kansas City.