Education

Vandals spray-painted racist messages on the outside of three Kirkwood schools Wednesday, the latest in a string of racial incidents in recent years in St. Louis County school districts.

Colleges and universities in the St. Louis area tried to adapt the college experience to make it resemble a normal school year during a pandemic. But not everything was easily replicated.

Metro East schools are trying to get ahead of any surge in coronavirus cases following winter break by keeping students home a little longer.

Learning to drive is a rite of passage that teenagers across the country look forward to. But the coronavirus pandemic has changed what that milestone looks like.

Public colleges and universities were already making do with fewer students and less state aid before the pandemic. Both of those dropped faster than expected in 2020.

More St. Louis-area high school students will have the opportunity after the holiday break to learn from inside a classroom instead of their homes.

Madison County, in particular, is down 850 students.

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.

With both traditional high school and college experiences upended by the pandemic, high school seniors are reconsidering where to apply for college this fall. And those who are still charging forward with ambitious college plans are doing so without the resume they had hoped would win over admissions officers.

St. Louis-area colleges plan to follow the same public health practices put in place during the fall, which helped most local universities avoid large coronavirus outbreaks.