Charter Schools

The rationale for a new collaboration between public school districts in the St. Louis area and Missouri’s association of charter schools can be summed up…

The Missouri Charter Public School Commission has hired St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay’s top education adviser as its first-ever executive director. Robbyn…

(Updated Feb. 18 with details on South City Prep's new location and the closing of Construction Careers Center High School.) A stream of eighth graders…

Missouri's recently formed Charter Public School Commission is preparing to begin operations next year.The seven-member commission, which held its first…

Almost 20,000 students in St. Louis and Kansas City attended a charter school last school year. That’s nearly twice as many compared to the 2003-04 school…

Angelee and Paul Brockmeyer have a soft spot for urban living and fixer-uppers. The couple spent five years rehabbing an old home in Chicago. So, when…

In the wake of dissatisfaction at its academic performance and other issues, the top officials at the Construction Careers Center charter school in St.…

Six years ago Mary Stillman attended a lecture by Ann Tisch at Washington University.“That was my ah-ha moment,” Stillman recalls. “Here she is talking…

All of us should be greatly concerned that the continuation of the Sequestration will have an extremely negative impact on the future of our schools and…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 26, 2013: Stephanie Krauss remembers clearly a moment when she saw that her vision for…