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St. Louis Public Radio Farragut Elementary School in St. Louis' Greater Ville neighborhood is one of 11 schools in the city listed for closure last month. St. Louis Public Schools will present a possibly shortened list Tuesday. St. Louis Public Schools parents will learn Tuesday evening if efforts over the past month to save any of 11 targeted schools in the city from closing were successful. The St. Louis Board of Education will meet at 6:30 to hear — and is expected to vote on — an updated plan for consolidating buildings and resources across the shrinking district. By closing some of t...

Some teachers at Brentano Math & Science Academy bundled up and set up tables and computers outside so they could still teach virtually. It's been a long time coming, but it's finally here. Roughly 6,000 CPS students will return to in-person learning for the first time since March. Those returning are Pre-K and special needs students whose parents were willing to send their children back into school buildings. "I feel like she's regressing because she's not getting the therapies she needs," said CPS parent Ebonie Davis. Davis is the mother of identical twins Leah and Layla Scott. The girls ar...

JANESVILLE Teachers spend careers without knowing how they affected the lives of the kids who passed through their classrooms. Mike Dean, who spent 38 years in the Janesville School District, is hearing from dozens of former students at a time when he needs the words the most. He is in a hospice, suffering from an inoperable brain tumor. Dean’s son, Steve, set up “Mr. Dean Memories” on Facebook in November, and memories flooded in from former students and colleagues. “I have never met anyone as dedicated to the craft of teaching as my father was,” Steve said. “He...

How Black male teachers in Minnesota are recruiting others to the profession Currently 34% of K-12 students across the state are students of color, while just 4% of licensed teachers identify as nonwhite. Written By: Riham Feshir / MPR News | 10:27 am, Dec. 21, 2020 × Prodeo Academy teacher Markus Flynn leads a fifth grade science class that is learning remotely. Flynn has been teaching for two years and is the new executive director of Black Men Teach. Christine T. Nguyen / MPR News MINNEAPOLIS -- All throughout high school, Kaiyre Lewis enjoyed working with kids. He b...

But when Lewis started college last year, he picked a major in political science. “I barely knew what poli sci was,” said Lewis, 19, a sophomore at Augsburg University in Minneapolis. “And then I got a job at a day care, and I had always in the back of my mind thought, ‘Maybe teaching, maybe teaching.’” But as a Black man and the first in his family to go to college, Lewis said he faced pressure to go to school for something more lucrative. “And on top of that, I only see white women,” he said. “I never looked at my teachers and thought, ‘That's gonna be me one day.’”