JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri’s governor has cut another $209 million from this year’s budget, including deep cuts in education, following a steep drop in revenue because of the coronavirus.…
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Students can help design Missouri's bicentennial posters
JEFFERSON CITY – What should a Missouri Bicentennial poster look like? Students around the state can help decide. Missouri will turn 200 in 2021, and students are invited to submit…
Virus is final knell for 3 schools in Archdiocese
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Three Catholic elementary schools that were already struggling financially will close because of the impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, as the outbreak continues to hit…
Missouri economy 'turned off like a faucet'
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers agreed Thursday to try to spare colleges and universities from budget cuts despite plummeting revenues that the state budget director says are unlike anything…
Missouri schools getting more aid from federal CARES act
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri’s schools are getting a new influx of funds from the federal government under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Margie Vandeven, the state’s commissioner…
St. Mary's High hopes to match $100,000 challenge grant
DUTCHTOWN – Even a Dragon can’t defeat the coronavirus by itself. St. Mary’s High School, whose mascot is the Dragon, is hoping supporters will rally ’round to help its hundreds…
Children need facts, reassurance as coronavirus changes lives
Children are being told: Stay inside, don’t visit extended family, don’t play with your friends. The COVID-19 coronavirus is a threat, and children worry about it. St. Louis institutions such…
Remote learning is under way, but many U.S. students lag
SAN DIEGO (AP) — During the first week that her San Diego public school was shuttered to slow the spread of the coronavirus, not one of Elise Samaniego’s students logged…
Symposium tackles school-to-prison pipeline
PENROSE – Shonta Smith eats, sleeps, breathes and lives education. As an educator for almost 30 years, she’s seen students from elementary through the collegiate level. And she has seen…
Comics University helps artists, fans 'see from someone else’s point of view'
DOWNTOWN – On a Wednesday night, a group of comic artists and enthusiasts hoping to learn more attended the first class of 2019’s Comics University through the St. Louis Public…
The Jaco Report, Ep. 15: SLPS Superintendent Kelvin Adams credits "stability" for district's academic and financial improvements
When Dr. Kelvin Adams was hired by the appointed Special Administrative Board in 2008, the St. Louis Public Schools had around 30,000 students, had lost it’s academic accreditation, faced a…
Superintendent 'hopeful' as elected board poised to regain control
After almost a dozen years of state control that have seen increased stability, rising attendance rates, climbing test scores, and a budget deficit turned into a surplus in the St.…