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Nearly half of the 68 public schools in the city are in such poor shape that they will need to be replaced or closed in the next 10 years.

A school district in Missouri is offering to pay some families to drive their kids to school as part of an effort to offset a shortage of bus drivers.

Two years after 5 On Your Side's initial reporting, the district secured enough money through a proposition to replace the fences.

A districtwide effort to remove fences with lead paint on them is underway in the St. Louis Public Schools district.

The school district has a long list of building improvement projects it plans to address with the money.

City and school leaders are hoping you'll approve a measure that will allow them to borrow $160 million without raising your taxes.

On Aug. 2, St. Louis voters will decide on a $160 million bond measure for building upgrades at St. Louis Public Schools, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what schools need.

St. Louis Public Radio Mark Schisler, a biology teacher, helps students prep a lab at Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience. The school may move locations next year. Updated at 1:30 p.m. with comments from the school board president Students at one of St. Louis Public Schools’ top high schools are feeling blindsided by a plan to relocate their school to another building in the city. Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience students say no one from the district discussed a plan to m...