Jefferson City, MO (KTRS) Missouri’s education department is recommending that a north St. Louis County school district regain provisional accreditation. The “St. Louis Post-Dispatch” reports the State Board of Education could approve the upgrade for Riverview Gardens as early as its next meeting on December 2. The school district has been unaccredited for nine years,…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Three St. Louis-area school districts say they will end out-of-school suspensions for preschool students through third-grade students in the next two years. That announcement from the school districts of Ladue, Normandy, and Maplewood-Richmond Heights made at an assemblyon Sunday for the Break the Pipeline campaign, an effort spearheaded by Metropolitan Congregations…
Jefferson City, MO (KTRS) The University of Missouri has a new leader. On Wednesday morning, the University of Missouri Board of Curators announced the appointment of Dr. Mun Y. Choi as it’s new system president. Board of Curators Chair Pam Henrickson introduced Dr. Choi in Jefferson City, making the announcement of the new president of the…
URBANA, Ill. (AP) – Enrollment totals for this fall show the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign is the seventh-largest public university campus in the country with 44,880 students. Charles Tucker, vice provost for undergraduate education and innovation, says the campus has grown by about 1 percent a year for several decades largely at the undergraduate…
Cost-of-living raises, pension contributions and health care have been key issues since the contract expired last year
St. Charles County, MO (KTRS) St. Charles Community College is reaching out to help displaced students from the now defunct ITT Technical Institute. The college will hold two informational sessions next week on exploring other educational opportunities at SCC. Sessions will be held at 3:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20, in Room 205…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois education officials are beginning to draft legislation that would prohibit school districts from dropping students from enrollment lists because they don’t meet minimum academic and attendance standards. Illinois State Board of Education officials say that current state law increases the chance that at-risk students will drop out of school. The Herald…
About 3.5 million students, public and private, will graduate from high school at the end of the school year
