News Briefs
Officials planned to start HIV testing last week at a suburban St. Louis high school where as many as 50 students may have been exposed to the virus that causes aids.
October 28, 2008
The Joplin, Mo., board of education gave the green light last week to change district policy to forbid visible tattoos.
October 20, 2008
Gov. Matt Blunt has signed into law measures that promise to boost state spending on schools, lessen some of the pain of property-tax increases, and create a new route into the teaching profession.
July 28, 2008
Legislature approves a $22.4 billion budget that includes an additional $130 million for K-12 education.
May 13, 2008
April 22, 2008
Gov. Blunt is proposing that state aid to K-12 schools be increased by $121 million next fiscal year and calling for quadrupling college-scholarship aid for needy students.
January 22, 2008
The St. Louis school district begins the new year facing likely state intervention, following a task force’s proposal for the locally elected school board to be stripped of its authority and for an appointed board to run the system on an interim basis.
January 9, 2007
Upheaval in the highest ranks of the St. Louis public schools on the eve of a new academic year has prompted Missouri’s top education official to appoint a special committee to help fix the troubled district.
August 8, 2006
The debate over a school choice bill in the Missouri legislature has opened a bitter rift among some of the state’s top black elected officials.
May 2, 2006
In a move signaling the profound change in store for the St. Louis public schools, the superintendent has broken up the district’s most troubled high school in the middle of the year, creating a separate school for the freshmen and placing the most accomplished seniors on a college campus.
January 24, 2006
