St. Louis Public Schools

Last year, 120 children were shot in metropolitan St. Louis, by one organization's count. Now, educators are looking to students for input on how to stop gun violence.

On Monday, students danced across the stage at the magnet high school to remember the people they lost in the October mass shooting and to celebrate the ways they continue to heal.

The Gateway STEM students staged the protest to call for action on gun violence.

The court said charter schools do not have to spend the money on desegregation programs.

Urban Strategies Inc. has received a $20.8 million federal Promise Neighborhoods grant to provide academic and social services support to students and families in struggling schools in the 63106 ZIP code of north St. Louis. The federal grant will give families access to early childhood education, emotional support programs and college and career readiness assistance.

St. Louis Public Schools has hired Keisha Scarlett, an administrator in Seattle Public Schools who has a doctorate in education leadership and policy studies, as its superintendent.

The candidates are vying to replace Kelvin Adams, who was one of the longest-serving superintendents in St. Louis history.

St. Louis Public Schools Superintendent Kelvin Adams will retire this month from the district he helmed for the past 14 years.

Demographers say after years of a declining birth rate, the student population declines aren’t a surprise. Still, they have a big impact on the operations of schools.

The district doesn’t currently sponsor any charter schools, and the move would mark a change in the way it operates. Confluence Academies is looking for a new sponsor after the University of Missouri-Columbia decided to stop sponsoring charters.