Parkway School District

According to Courage2Report, a Missouri statewide school safety initiative, there have already been 125 reported school violence tips between July and September — which is nearly as many as the number of tips reported in all of 2023.

Before Parkway West graduate Elizabeth Franklin turned 18, she wrote for the school paper as a way to inform – and challenge – those around her.

About 200 upperclassmen in Parkway North’s government and law and crime classes will listen to oral arguments in a criminal appeal, then participate in a question-and-answer session with the judges and attorneys afterward.

A dangerous heat wave is throwing off the first week of school in districts around the St. Louis region.

A director from the U.S. Department of Energy visited Parkway South High School this week to commend the district’s energy efficiency work.

Highcroft Ridge Elementary School is the first school to implement new school building codes that will help first responders.

A local elementary music teacher picked up the ukulele during the pandemic and is now teaching it to all of her students at Henry Elementary School in the Parkway School District.

Across the board, districts say the same types of teachers are difficult to find — high school science and math teachers, foreign language teachers and special education teachers. There is also a big demand for custodians, food service workers and other support staff.

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

This fall, educators are adjusting their lesson plans to make more time for social and emotional skills, after last year's pandemic-related closures kept many kindergartners at home.