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St. Louis Public Radio Amy Ryan, a Rockwood parent, reacts Friday during a parent-organized forum on the district's diversity curriculum. Politics didn’t used to enter the schools. The elementary recitals and high school football games were where parents could put conservative versus liberal views aside, don the school colors and root for their kids. But without that common social fabric in a year of social distancing, the Rockwood School District community is ripping at the seams, frayed first by the pandemic’s closure of schools and then shredded by a fight over whether and how to teac...

"If private schools accept public money, they should be held accountable to taxpayers," Ghan said. Tax credits part of bill  Related to private schools, the bill would create up to $100 million in tax credits for donations to an organization that provides scholarships for students to attend a private school or home school. In addition to the recall provision for local school board members, the bill would also limit state board of education members to one term. Ghan said he's not sure about the strategy of loading so many things into one bill. It could give some legislators something to vot...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Opponents of eminent domain for the massive Grain Belt Express project plan to rally on Wednesday at the Missouri Capitol to urge the state Senate to join with the House in passing a bill that would prohibit the involuntary seizing of land. They hope the third time is a charm as efforts in 2019 and 2020 passed the House only to die in the Senate. In February, the Missouri House of Representatives voted 123-33 on a bill that would reverse a Missouri Public Service Commission ruling that declared private Grain Belt Express project, which is owned by Chicago-based Inve...

A bill with charter school expansion, public funding of private schools and home schools, and nearly everything else officials and advocates of traditional public schools don't want could come up for debate on the floor of the Missouri Senate at any time. Bills like this one are introduced every year and so far have been unsuccessful, but like so many other things, this year may be different. Among its provisions, the bill would expand charter schools beyond St. Louis and Kansas City to allow them to be established in towns with populations over 30,000 and charter counties. It would create...

Prosecutors in the office that convicted him of shooting Marcus Boyd dead on his porch in St. Louis in 1994 now see it that way, too, and have filed a motion for a new trial. To which our criminal justice system once again this week said: So what? Johnson has a standing 2 p.m. phone call with one of his lawyers, Kansas City attorney Lindsay Runnels, on every day there’s a court decision in his case. So when he got the news on Tuesday that the Missouri Supreme Court had ruled that St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has no authority to petition a court for a new trial, how did he react?