Ryan Delaney
Education ReporterRyan was a reporter on the education desk at St. Louis Public Radio, covering both higher education and the many school districts in the St. Louis region.
He has previously reported for public radio stations WFYI in Indianapolis and WRVO in upstate New York. He began his journalism career working part time for WAER while attending Syracuse University. He's won multiple reporting awards and his work, which has aired on NPR, The Takeaway and WGBH's Innovation Hub. Having grown up in Burlington, Vt., he often spends time being in the woods hiking, camping, and skiing.
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The bioscience-themed high school lacks permanent laboratories. But students are skeptical of moving to a new site. -
In-person classes, fans at sports games and living in the dorms will all return. But most colleges in the region are not planning to require COVID-19 vaccinations. -
Preschool enrollment in Missouri is on the upswing, but spots in free preschool centers are still hard to find. -
There's more funding available for summer learning, but schools will have to overcome exhausted staff and students to persuade them to show up this summer. -
A year after the pandemic first closed buildings, Ferguson-Florissant School District became one of the last districts to welcome students back. -
The study's findings build on prior evidence that in-person learning is safe and does not contribute to COVID-19 outbreaks when schools implement safety measures. -
Washington University students say the organizations they were once a part of contribute to racism and sexism on campus. The exodus could upend a social hierarchy that’s existed on campuses like Wash U's for decades. -
Missouri Teachers began lining up Monday for coronavirus vaccines after teachers unions pressured the state to make them eligible sooner. -
The school board approved a new effort to reinvigorate Sumner's declining enrollment, rather than close the historic school. -
Sumner alumni are rooting to keep the historic high school open for the next generation after St. Louis Public Schools put Sumner on a closure list. -
Missouri school students will sit down for state assessments soon. For some, it’ll be their first time in a classroom in more than a year. Teachers and parents say testing should be canceled, but education officials counter the data is critical. -
It has been nearly a year since the pandemic first forced schools in Missouri to close. For many children, the long absence is starting to drag down grades and drain their love of school.
