St. Louis Public Schools

St. Louis officials are urging parents to get their kids vaccinated so students can learn uninterrupted for the remainder of the school year.

The Board of Education in August passed a mandate requiring school district employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Friday to protect students and staff.

School districts in the St. Louis Metro are experiencing a staffing, supply and teacher shortage that’s grown with the coronavirus pandemic.

At a board meeting on Tuesday, St. Louis Public Schools voted to require the COVID-19 vaccine for all employees. The policy takes effect in mid-October.

St. Louis-area schools will open their classrooms to students this fall. But some parents plan to keep their children at home to protect them from the coronavirus.

This fall, educators are adjusting their lesson plans to make more time for social and emotional skills, after last year's pandemic-related closures kept many kindergartners at home.

A plan to convert the old Simmons School in The Ville neighborhood is being led by a developer who attended the elementary school years ago.

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.