St. Louis Public Schools

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.

St. Louis' school buildings have half as many kids in them as other big cities and school districts do.

The bioscience-themed high school lacks permanent laboratories. But students are skeptical of moving to a new site.

There's more funding available for summer learning, but schools will have to overcome exhausted staff and students to persuade them to show up this summer.

The school board approved a new effort to reinvigorate Sumner's declining enrollment, rather than close the historic school.

Sumner alumni are rooting to keep the historic high school open for the next generation after St. Louis Public Schools put Sumner on a closure list.

The school board voted 4-3 to close a smaller list of schools than it considered late last year.

St. Louis Public Schools parents will learn Tuesday evening if efforts over the past month to save 11 schools in the city from closing were successful.

On Tuesday, St. Louis Public Schools Superintendent Kelvin Adams agreed to delay for one month the vote to close 11 schools. Activists and alumni had pushed back on the school board’s closure plans. Adams discussed the delay on St. Louis on the Air.

St. Louis Public Schools plans to close 11 schools in response to shrinking enrollment. Community pushback has been strong.