St. Louis Public Schools

VaNetta Clark, a PhD candidate at Washington University in St. Louis, curated an exhibit of artifacts collected by her former teachers at the Scullin School in the Penrose neighborhood. It was closed in 2003 and has fallen into disrepair as St. Louis Public Schools has struggled to sell it.

St. Louis’ LCRA voted to scrap a plan to redevelop Cleveland High School in Dutchtown as it eyes purchasing two vacant buildings from the St. Louis Public School system.

Good Jobs First released its annual report, which found that St. Louis Public Schools is losing about $2,360 per student from tax incentives offered to developers. The St. Louis Development Corporation rebuffed the report’s findings.

The three schools include Washington Montessori Elementary School, Yeatman-Liddell Middle School and Beaumont High School, which is home to some of the district’s career and technical programs.

A geolocation service registered 2.6 million uses of betting platforms in the first 24 hours of legal sports wagering in the state.

St. Louis Public Schools has proposed reopening at least three of the seven schools that were damaged by the May 16 tornado in January. Drone images and a tour inside two of the schools show the extent of the damage.

District officials said Washington Montessori Elementary School, Yeatman-Liddell Middle School and Beaumont High School, which houses multiple career and technical programs, would be ready to reopen after repairs are completed next month.

In a letter shared with St. Louis Public Radio, Board of Education President Karen Collins-Adams listed a series of concerns about “an increasing pattern of unauthorized communications from you over the last several months.”

The district temporarily closed seven of its buildings after the deadly May 16 tornado damaged a dozen of the district’s schools. Nearly 2,000 students were reassigned to other schools within the district.

Ben Conover resigned on Monday, calling out “reckless actions” and “duplicitous leadership” of the St. Louis Board of Education.