St. Louis Public Schools

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.

Proposition R would raise St. Louis residents' property tax rate by 6 cents, yielding $2.3 million annually for early childhood centers in the city.

St. Louis Public Schools announced plans to bring back pre-K through 2nd grade students on Monday. Older students in the 3rd through 6th grades will return Oct. 26. For middle and high schoolers, late November is the earliest possible start date.

"Still Separate, Still Unequal" is a new report and digital tool on St. Louis public schools. It was published Wednesday by Forward Through Ferguson, a nonprofit created to address the region's systemic racial challenges.

Last week, just before St. Louis Public Schools kicked off a fall semester like no other, Jana Flynn’s masked colleagues surprised her with flowers, a plaque and signs — all in celebration of her being named the district’s 2020 Educator of the Year. SLPS cited the gifted specialist's “passion, dedication and desire to think outside of the box” in her work with students ranging from preschool to eighth grade.

Dozens of St. Louis teachers clung to a sliver of shade offered by the administrative building of St. Louis Public Schools on Monday, clutching signs…

After sitting empty for months, offices and commercial buildings in St. Louis are beginning to reopen — many with freshly installed Plexiglas barriers to…