2006

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In a letter to its members, the president and the executive board of the St. Louis City teachers union called the 2005-06 school year one of the most frustrating, demanding, and exhausting that the teachers,…

PARK PROTECTION PETITION? PERHAPS. – The group seeking to protect a part of Forest Park from the latest attempt to take it for commercial use might be turning in their petition this afternoon. The petition,…

The St. Louis School Board will be holding three meetings tonight. All three meetings will be at the Administration Building, 801 N. 11th Street. The Real Estate Committee meeting will be held at 5:00 p.m.…

Supporters of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Claire McCaskill will be gathering on Election Night on the eastern side of the state in downtown St. Louis and on the western side of the state in downtown…

School board member Peter Downs made a motion at tonight’s administrative meeting to have the superintendent look at cancelling the district’s contract with controversial maintenance contractor Sodexho. By a vote of 4-2, the board voted…

The following letter from school board Vice President Bill Purdy was sent to the Post-Dispatch as a letter to the editor in response to an earlier editorial. The editors of the Post chose not to…

EMERGENCY MEETING CALLED... WILLIAMS FORCED OUT AS SUPERINTENDENT, BOARD HIRES BOURISAW IN CLOSED MEETING By Antonio D. French School Board President Veronica O'Brien has called a special emergency board meeting for 6:30 tonight. No word…

The U.S. Senate, by a vote of 65-34, has passed a controversial bill that gives broad authority to President George W. Bush to interpret (or re-interpret) the long-standing Geneva Convention standards on the treatment of…