Jennings School District

The program aims to make economics engaging and relevant for students of color who are historically underrepresented in the field.

About 1 in 3 female students surveyed at a St. Louis County public high school reported they had missed school because they couldn’t afford to buy tampons or pads, often at least one day per month.

St. Louis-area educators struggle to staff classrooms amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases stemming from the highly contagious Omicron variant.

School boards throughout Missouri have had to make consequential decisions that sometimes were not popular around masking and remote schooling.

Jennings Superintendent Paula Knight shares how educators are rethinking back-to-school this year. Like others across the region, the district plans to proceed with in-person classes Monday through Friday, even with the threat of the delta variant.

Educators at both public and private schools in St. Louis County explain how they are making in-person learning work in difficult circumstances.

A year ago, high school student Dakota Warren could often be found in the backyard of biologist Patty Parker, catching birds in an effort to get blood samples. When she wasn’t in Parker’s yard, she was busy in Parker’s lab at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, conducting DNA research with those samples. This summer, Warren planned to return to Parker’s lab, but then the pandemic hit. And like most people with any plans for 2020, Parker and her teenage interns had to rethink theirs.

On a recent morning of summer school, students were met at the entrance of Gore Elementary School in Jennings with thermal temperature scanners. It’s just…

The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri is calling on the state’s school districts to follow a national example and remove police officers from…

Jennings school students who are homeless and need a ride to school are arriving the way many suburban kids do: by minivan.The small north St. Louis…