Suspensions

Black students in Missouri are four and a half times more likely to be suspended than white students, according to a report released Thursday by the…

Updated Nov. 14 9:45 a.m. with results of the assembly — By the 2018-2019 school year at least four school districts in the St. Louis area could have…

This a preview of an upcoming episode of St. Louis Public Radio’s We Live Here, a podcast that explores race, class, power and poverty in the St. Louis…

Metropolitan Congregations United is calling for police, school and juvenile court reform in St. Louis to reduce the disproportionate number of black…

Administrators will no longer be able to suspend students in pre-kindergarten through second grade who attend St. Louis Public Schools starting next…

Racial disparities are a huge topic in education. And Missouri schools — specifically those in the St. Louis area — have been singled out as having some of the nation’s highest rates of suspensions that are disproportionately allocated to African Americans.

In their continuing struggle to raise test scores and regain accreditation, leaders of the Normandy school district have stressed a positive message: high…

High school students with Metropolitan Congregations United are calling for a reduction in out-of-school suspensions in area schools. They presented data…