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

As Joe Biden and Kamala Harris clashed in the Democratic presidential debates over the issue of busing, viewers may have thought of these programs as…

Applications for the St. Louis school desegregation program are decreasing, yet there’s still more demand than open slots.At its height in the early…

Thirteen St. Louis elementary school students received minor injuries Thursday when their school bus crashed through a guardrail and ran down an…

With St. Louis’ voluntary desegregation program on its final extension, University of Missouri-St. Louis education professor Jerome Morris has been asked…

The African-American student who was barred from attending a St. Louis charter school after his family moved to St. Louis County is pressing his case in…

After area school superintendents voted Friday to phase out the current race-based student transfer program – and possibly replace it with a new one down…

If the voluntary student transfer program that has served more than 70,000 St. Louis area students over more than 30 years is going to continue beyond…

School officials could extend the life of St. Louis’ interdistrict desegregation program indefinitely by switching from racial to economic transfer…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 22, 2013 - Now that hundreds of students have started their long bus rides from Normandy and…