2006

The following is a reprint from SLSWatch:by The Watch CommitteeAccording to school board member Peter Downs, St. Louis Public Schools are now accepting applications for admission to magnet schools.The district moved up the application period…

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The School Board will meet tonight at Carr Lane VPA Middle School, 1004 N. Jefferson Avenue. Among the agenda items are a presentation to the "Teachers of the Year" and a vote on a resolution…

The Post-Dispatch’s Jo Mannies is reporting that nearly 1,500 voter registration cards turned in recently by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) have been flagged as “potentially fraudulent” by the St. Louis…

An article in yesterday's St. Louis Schools Watch e-newsletter states that "the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has approved five more charter schools for St. Louis". According to a DESE spokesman, that is not…

At the last meeting of the St. Louis City School Board, the board majority surprised many by voting to drop the word "interim" off the title of new Superintendent Diana Bourisaw, effectively making her the…

A special school board meeting is tonight at 5:00 p.m. in the Foundation Room at the Administrative Building, 801 N. 11th Street. Click here for the agenda. And the Central Democratic Committees of both St.…

In 2002, the SLPS were provisionally accredited. If it had not been for the impending end to the desegregation program within the district, the district would have been unaccredited at that time, but instead was…

Comedian and radio talk-show host Al Franken will be doing a live broadcast of his Air America radio show from the campus of Washington University next week. Franken, an outspoken liberal and a favorite target…