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The Illinois State Board of Education is seeking an additional $35 million in this year's budget to support an influx of immigrant children in public schools, but advocates now say the price tag is closer to $180 million — and climbing.
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The PNC Foundation, through a partnership with the Missouri Botanical Garden, is granting the Julia Goldstein Early Childhood Education Center in University City $75,000.
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Guiyou Huang, Western Illinois University’s president, announced Friday he will step down at the end of the month in the midst of the university's enrollment turmoil.
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The Missouri-based loan servicing organization pushed back Friday on allegations that it mismanaged a federal aid program, arguing the U.S. Department of Education is partially to blame for complaints included in a recent report.
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More than half of Illinois' teachers surveyed said they are ready to embrace social studies standards that include teaching LGBTQ+, Asian American, and pre-enslavement Black history in its public schools.
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St. Louis Public Schools' bus drivers called off en masse Monday and Tuesday after a noose was found last week near a worker's desk at Missouri Central Bus. Some drivers say its an attempt to keep them from speaking out against poor working conditions.
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A federal program is sending millions of dollars to a handful of St. Louis-area school districts so they can replace diesel buses with all-electric models.
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Aviston School District 21 has asked voters to approve an increase to its educational fund tax rate three previous times. Each time, it failed by three votes or less.
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The statewide effort to clean up drinking water was prompted by a 2022 Missouri law, and more than $27 million has been set aside to fix the problems.
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The suicide death of a Lincoln University administrator reflects a a phenomenon associated with Black women and girls known as “weathering" — an early health deterioration as a consequence of repeated social and economic adversity paired with political marginalization.
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The St. Louis-based private university has quadrupled its low-income students since 2013. The school's administrators say their strategies to do so could be applicable nationwide.
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About 200 upperclassmen in Parkway North’s government and law and crime classes will listen to oral arguments in a criminal appeal, then participate in a question-and-answer session with the judges and attorneys afterward.