Normandy School District

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.

Community leaders have been upset with recent leadership decisions and lobbied the state board for changes.

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.

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.

Some reopening schools in the St. Louis area are trying to make use of whatever grass and outdoor space they have, banking on it being a safer place to bring students back than indoors.

Normandy teacher Duane Foster recently returned from an unusual sabbatical: a role in an off-Broadway production of “Antigone in Ferguson.” Foster made…

Discontinued during the turmoil of unaccreditation and reincorporation, a gifted learning program has returned to Normandy’s elementary schools.At…

Last Tuesday was supposed to be a monumental day for Normandy’s public school district. It was kicking off 2018 with a distinction it had not enjoyed in…

Normandy’s school district has surpassed a “milestone” in its long turnaround process.The Missouri State Board of Education voted unanimously Friday to…

Missouri education officials could elevate the long-troubled Normandy school district out of unaccredited status.Officials at Department of Elementary and…