Hazelwood School District

Geoffrey Soyiantet, Sally Gacheru and Gracemary Nganga compare their Kenyan beed bracelets. Gacheru and Nganga, both 17 year olds from Florissant, will return to Kenya on a service trip through Soyiantet's Vitendo4Africa organization.

Education

Perspective and excitement for Kenyan teens on volunteer trip home

Ryan Delaney

Sally Gacheru is wearing a black t-shirt with the Kenyan flag embroidered on it: red, black and green, with a shield in the middle.“My pride being a…

Education

Hazelwood schools continue cutbacks as enrollment shrinks again

Ryan Delaney

The Hazelwood School District, one of St. Louis County’s largest school systems, will have a balanced budget for the second straight school year, but at…

Hazelwood parents read through an audit of the school district's finances done by Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway during a community meeting to release the results of the report Wednesday, May 2, 2018.

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State audit finds Hazelwood’s weak financial practices set stage for theft

Ryan Delaney

Lax handling of cash created an environment that allowed a former Hazelwood high school principal to embezzle thousands of dollars, according to a state…

Sasha Walchli, an English language teacher at Parkway's Green Trails Elementary, works with third-graders on learning continents. Walchi has 43 students at the school, twice as many as when she started 10 years ago.

Education

Growth of English-language learners overwhelming some suburban school districts

Ryan Delaney

Radi and Hadi Hamdan’s English is getting better, slowly. Sitting in the living room of their Florissant home on a recent evening, they struggled to get…

Hazelwood West seniors Yonnas Wole, Richard Spivey and Mallory Bachheit talk while they wait for district administrators to respond to their call for a meeting on Thurs., May 18, 2017.

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St. Louis-area schools adopt new behavior policies based on change to Missouri criminal code

A semester after changes to Missouri’s criminal code sparked concern that school fights could result in felony charges, St. Louis-area school districts…

A group of Hazelwood West students protest their suspensions Thursday May 18, 2017 outside the district's administration offices.

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Hazelwood schools lift student suspensions after days of pressure

Ryan Delaney

Hazelwood school officials lifted the suspensions of nearly 200 high school students Thursday after several days of pressure from fellow students, parents…

Education

Missouri state auditor begins review of Hazelwood schools at parents’ request

Ryan Delaney

Parents in the Hazelwood School District who were concerned that administrators are being too well compensated while other areas of the school system get…

Grayling Tobias, former Hazelwood superintendent

Departing Hazelwood superintendent was caught between friction on board

Dale Singer

Grayling Tobias, who has retired as superintendent of the Hazelwood school district after being placed on administrative leave, decided to give up the job…

Teachers Kimberly Merrill, far left, and Catherine Moore, Home Works executive director Karen Kalish, and principal Cameron Coleman discuss the Home Works teacher home visit program with 'St. Louis on the Air' host Don Marsh on Jan. 15, 2015.

Education

Home Visit Program Connects Teachers, Parents

Positive relationships between teachers, students and parents lead to success. That’s the idea behind Home Works’ teacher home visit program.Teachers in…

Morning headlines: Monday, Sept. 3, 2012

Tim Lloyd

Isaac dumps rain, but Mo. drought persistsThe National Weather Service says large parts of rural Missouri and Illinois had between three-to-five inches of…