Kate Grumke
Senior Environment and Data ReporterKate reports on the environment, climate and agriculture for St. Louis Public Radio and Harvest Public Media.
She started at STLPR in 2021 as the education reporter, covering late night school board meetings and tagging along on field trips. Before that, Kate spent more than 5 years producing television in Washington, D.C., most recently at the PBS NewsHour. In that work she climbed to the top of a wind turbine in Iowa, helped plan the environmental section of a presidential debate and produced multiple news-documentaries on energy and the environment. She also won a Peabody, a National Murrow Award and was nominated for a National Emmy.
Kate grew up in St. Louis and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She also holds a certificate in data journalism from Columbia University’s Lede Program.
Have a story tip or idea? Email Kate at kgrumke@stlpr.org.
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The efforts to remove books from school libraries started with parents in local school districts and eventually led to state legislatures. After two years of controversy, one school librarian says her colleagues are leaving the profession because it has become too painful. -
An amendment that extended the funding and expanded it to include parts of St. Louis did not make it into the final defense funding bill. Now St. Louis-area advocates are figuring out their next steps. -
Public school enrollment is relatively flat this year, compared to last year. But it is still down from recent years, and experts say more decline is likely coming. -
A new report found Missouri’s rural teachers are paid better only than those in Arkansas. -
Washington University, St. Louis University, the Zoo and other local institutions are bringing kids into Forest Park to show them wildlife can thrive in urban areas. -
The board says it was not given proper notice in the charter school’s application process. -
Since the 2018-19 school year, the Hazelwood School District has sharply increased its rate of investigating student residency eightfold, deploying a team of employees who can use intrusive tactics. -
A school board member proposed a policy to require students to use bathrooms based on their sex assigned at birth. -
Hundreds of community members, students and alumni from Central Visual and Performing Arts High School and Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience mourned the lives lost one year after a deadly shooting at the south St. Louis schools. -
Students at Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience are processing difficult emotions as they reflect on the upcoming anniversary of the deadly shooting in the school building they share with Central Visual and Performing Arts High School. -
The St. Louis University team discovered microplastics in water and sediment in a cave that had been mostly closed to humans for 30 years. -
A change in USDA policy will make it easier for schools to offer free meals to all students, but they will still have to pay for part of the cost.
