Blythe Bernhard
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St. Louis area parents, educators, interested residents: We started a Facebook group for discussions about schools and education topics. Please join us, and help improve local news coverage on this most important issue.
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Today, two students sued the Wentzville School District for violating their civil rights by banning books including The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.
Tonight, the Wentzville school board voted unanimously to keep Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero after a parent challenge.
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Conservative candidates defeated across the St. Louis region in sweeping rebuke of right-wing efforts to stack school boards:
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Pay is a factor for teachers leaving the profession, but it is not at the top. I hear micromanaging/disrespect from admin, constantly changing curriculum that doesn’t match student needs, apathetic/defiant students, lack of paras/support staff, burnout from extra work piled on
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Students are streaming out of Maplewood Richmond Heights middle and high school to stand against gun violence
@StudentsDemand
#nationalwalkout
@MRH_Schools
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Francis Howell school board reinstates Black History, Black Literature courses after blowback via
@stltoday
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“When you donate a kidney, you do it to help someone live longer and get off dialysis. For these women, they are donating an experience.”
A woman has given birth to a baby via uterus transplant for the first time in the U.S.
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The
@FrancisHowell
school board voted 5-2 tonight to eliminate the Black History and Black Literature elective courses from its three high schools starting in fall 2024.
There was no explanation for dropping the courses except that the board has the final say over curriculum.
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They say when you've lost Francis Howell ... I have no idea what they say because I've never seen 35 school districts get sued by their own AG. But this is a St. Charles County district bringing the heat, and that's something.
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Three of the last five Missouri teachers of the year have caught COVID-19, and they're asking
@GovParsonMO
to prioritize teachers for the vaccine. Kansas, Illinois and other border states are vaccinating teachers now.
@msta
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Captain Elementary kids
@ClaytonSchools
walked out even after school was canceled for power outage
@StudentsDemand
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Darrion Cockrell, Missouri’s 2021 Teacher of the Year, came down with the virus two weeks ago. He’s ultra-fit and still struggling with low energy and lung capacity. Now he wants the state’s teachers to get vaccinated before it’s too late for them, too.
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On Dec. 5 Missouri Rep. Justin Hicks (R-Lake St. Louis) pre-filed a bill that would allow charter schools to open in St. Charles County.
On Dec. 12 his PAC, Americans First, received $10,000 from Rex Sinquefield.
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How it’s going: The Wentzville School Board reversed its decision and will keep The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison in high school libraries. Vote was 5-1 with one abstention.
Today, two students sued the Wentzville School District for violating their civil rights by banning books including The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.
Tonight, the Wentzville school board voted unanimously to keep Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero after a parent challenge.
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Drag queen story time, St. Louis Public Library, September 2017. Packed house, no one cared and it was fun!
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Without this local reporter we might have never known
NEW: Police visited the home of Anthony Quinn Warner last year after his girlfriend told them he was "building bombs in the RV." The FBI was also told about the report last August.
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Lowest school attendance rates in Missouri, 2022
(% of students attending 90% of the time)
Hawthorn (STL charter) 32%
DeLaSalle (KC charter) 34%
Riverview Gardens 35%
KC Girls Prep (charter) 38%
Atlas (STL charter) 40%
Tolbert (KC charter) 43%
Confluence (STL charter) 44%
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Abortion has a similar complication rate as colonoscopy, 1% or less. I covered
@HealthyLivingMo
for 12+ years. Never once did they issue a press release about a known colonoscopy complication at a surgical center, or threaten to pull its license.
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What do we call the Schnucks that has live music and champagne samples on NYE?!?!
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The poll is funded by SLU’s Prime Center which in turn is funded by Walton Family Foundation and Opportunity Trust. Prime and its poll are derived from SLU’s “Big Ideas” initiative funded by Rex Sinquefield.
More Missourians dissatisfied with public education, latest poll shows
#moleg
#mogov
via
@RudiKellerMI
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When someone at a Wentzville school board meeting in January called a photojournalist "groomer" for asking students how to spell their names, I thought it was just a bizarre one-off comment and not some kind of national organized political strategy to accomplish ... what exactly?
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An example of a school board candidate (Ritenour) with disdain for public schools
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If hospitals were graded on their data, Barnes-Jewish would rate worst on performance. But they aren’t - the data is adjusted for all kinds of challenges in the patient population. Not so with public schools - rich and poor are graded on the same scale. They measure poverty.
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This is a wild ride. A data journalist discovered a major security flaw in the state’s website, alerts the state, gets called a hacker by the state, which blatantly lies about the situation
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It’s almost like it’s not about masks. And yes, we are asking.
The only districts *not* hit with a lawsuit in St. Louis county are circled in blue. Any reporter gonna ask
@AGEricSchmitt
how he decided *which* districts to sue?? Because I know Kirkwood still has a mask mandate.
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If the flu were raging through a school, and too many kids/teachers were out sick, the school would shut down for a few days. I know because I covered it when it happened every year pre-2020. It’s not panicking, it’s (lack of) staffing, which is worse now than ever.
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Heads up to concerned parents - if you file a challenge against a school library book, your name is a public record. Same goes for emails to the Missouri attorney general.
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My favorite conspiracy theory is that schools aren’t teaching cursive so kids can’t read the founding documents.
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At least two, SLPS and Maplewood Richmond Heights, aren’t removing books.
“We don’t censor anything at this point. We are not changing what we do for kids because we know what they need. They are going out into a diverse society.”
@MRH_Supt
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“It is especially disappointing that so much energy and hatred was directed at an issue that involved fewer than 10 students in the entire state who were participating in sports under MSHSAA’s former regulations,”
@MRH_Schools
leaders wrote to parents.
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Wentzville schools are experiencing severe staff shortages and called an emergency board meeting. Superintendent Curtis Cain (current Missouri supt of the year) recommended a mask mandate and the board said nope, while sitting around a table mostly unmasked. Somebody is coughing.
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Can’t take my kid to the playground but this is apparently cool in downtown St. Louis.
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The other six members of the Rockwood School Board have condemned Jessica Laurent Clark and removed her from committee assignments. Two, Keith Kinder and Izzy Imig, called on Clark to resign.
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Medical school classes are 50% women, while their professors are 21% and deans are 16%. Five St. Louis medical students want to change that with their 500 Women in Medicine advocacy project
@500WIM
@arghavan_salles
@WUSTLmed
via
@stltoday
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I came for the lack of COVID mitigation, stayed for the book banning
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Absolute garbage data reporting from Missouri health department continues. Today they say the 5,020 cases yesterday were caused by a "database extract error" but they don't give more accurate data. Eight months in and they still cannot get this together.
@michelemunz
@chrisprener
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After 20+ years of magnet & charter schools, St. Louis has the highest mobility rates in the country. Overall academics and enrollment have only declined. Too many schools for too few students. Constant upheaval with school openings and closings. Most parochial schools are gone.
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The fight is very nominally about education or school choice. It’s about busting unions, public pensions, teacher certification/tenure and most importantly, taxes.
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Health reporter tweet here. Why are Stormy Daniels' pupils so dilated in that bright room? AC's aren't. Ok carry on.
#60minutes
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To all of the pundits downplaying the news value and national significance of BOOK BANS as just “some random school” or a rural Midwest county, where exactly do you think the Constitution shouldn’t apply?
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The school shutdowns in St. Louis have nothing to do with teachers' unions or media sensationalism - it's because too many people are sick.
"I know we think teachers are superheroes but they get sick and also their family members get sick," Dr. George Barnes,
@NormandySC1
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Wentzville doesn't have enough staffing for kids to eat lunch in their classrooms. Teachers are sick, lunch ladies are sick, substitutes are sick or don't exist. If catching COVID isn't dangerous for kids, what about a lack of adults in the school?
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A majority of kids in the program were already attending private schools, according to the state treasurer’s office.
This year, the Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (MOScholars) program officially launched. It’s already made a massive impact. Because of this program, families all across the Show Me State have been able to escape failing government-run schools.
#MOLeg
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Legend Jackie Joyner-Kersee receives her COVID-19 vaccine today in East St. Louis. Photo courtesy East STL School District 189.
@JJKWILPrograms
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In the most difficult week of my career, I covered the funeral of a duck boat victim, updated a story on a 12-year-old boy who died after experimental cancer treatment and met with the parents of a woman who killed her baby, her husband and herself. I only wish it were fake news.
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Getting a few comments telling me a school library book isn't "banned" if you can still get it on Amazon. Wrong.
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One of the grads said to me, “Tell the Post-Dispatch there’s still a use for us.” I believe it, and I’m telling everyone.
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The portion of my property taxes that go to the local school district would cover about 3 months of tuition for two kids at the cheapest private school.
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No, this is what you get when schools are forced into high-stakes math and reading test prep at the exclusion of everything else
Students' knowledge of U.S. history is at an all-time low. This is what you get when you teach
#CRT
, DEI & the 1619 Project instead of the Declaration of Independence, the
#Constitution
& the Gettysburg Address.
@SandraSmithFox
@AmericaRpts
@FoxNews
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The Wentzville school board voted 4-3 to remove The Bluest Eye from school libraries
Watching the Wentzville school board meeting. They are going to vote on a recommendation to keep The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison in school libraries after a challenge. The district's review board voted 8-1 to keep it.
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Today's tireless school district comms award goes to
@MehlvilleSD
's
@JessPupillo
and team who handled one high school evacuation with boiler issues in the morning and another high school evacuation with a small fire in the evening, plus getting sued by the AG in between!🏆
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Just saw a “Keep Kirkwood Weird” bumper sticker. Um, who wants to tell them?😝
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Last year Grace Church endorsed two of its members running for school board, a violation of campaign laws for tax-exempt organizations. Neither candidate won.
The church is hosting a “school board expo” March 25 and 26.
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Please show some compassion for this guy struggling to register his Jaguar
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Here’s my son in the Rock ‘n Play on the day we brought him home from the hospital. It was our most highly recommended baby registry item. I vaguely knew it wasn’t for sleeping - but never wake a sleeping baby, right? Thank you
@tcfrankel
for this terrifying and important work.
Parents loooved the Rock 'n Play. It was magical at getting babies to sleep. Last month it was recalled. More than 30 babies had died in it.
So what went wrong?
Lots of things
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Odd moment during state board of education meeting today when member Peter Herschend said (twice) that there are 65,000 charter school students in Missouri and nobody corrected him. There are 24,609 charter school students, or less than 3% of the 859,398 students in the state.
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Patriot Christian Schools in St. Charles, Missouri postpones their opening
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As the state legislature fights the critical race theory/transgender boogeymen, the real crisis is here:
A record 128 Missouri school districts — 25 percent — switch to four-day weeks via
@springfieldNL
@MOEducation
@JonTurnerEdD
@Marshfield_R1
@Bolivar_Schools
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker announces a universal mask mandate for all day cares and PK-12 schools in the state
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School privatizers are making big moves in Missouri. My guess is they want to push universal vouchers for private schools, using the state budget instead of tax credits - modeled on Arizona. Aided by friendly SCOTUS & lackluster response to new tax credits for limited vouchers.
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More trouble in Rockwood as Dr. Terry Harris resigns after “deeply painful” school board decision to cut programs for Black students
@NassimBnchabane
and me
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BREAKING: St. Louis is no longer the STD capital of the country, bumped by Etowah County, Alabama. I'm working on this shocking development.
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Classes with inappropriately credentialed teachers:
Kairos 66%
KIPP 64%
Soulard School 63%
North Side Community School 53%
Momentum Academy 45%
St. Louis Language Immersion 43%
City Garden Montessori 38%
Lift for Life Academy 36%
Hawthorn Leadership School 28%
Confluence 27%
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This is a principal in
@WebsterGrovesSD
. Social distancing isn’t about being scared, it’s about being responsible.
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INBOX: I was deeply saddened by the actions of the Wentzville school board. I am 66 years old living in Texas and a former WHS student. Although I left the area my senior year, my Wentzville HS education was a formative period of critical thinking ...
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After Florida school shooting, St. Louis becomes hub for gun violence prevention activism
@shannonrwatts
@Rebecca_221B
@MomsDemand
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Judge says Columbia, Mo. Planned Parenthood can resume abortion care
Breaking News: U.S. District Court grants permanent injunction, protecting PPKM's license to perform abortions.
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Youth sports blamed for rise in COVID-19 infections; 6 to 8 new cases daily in 10- to 19-year-olds in St. Louis County - "Schools aren't even in session and we're seeing this increase" via
@stltoday
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Everyone still wearing masks are definitely the vaccinated ones, right?
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“All your students are part of our community. All your students are loved. All your students are loved. All. Your. Students. Are. Loved.”
@dr_tharris211
@rockwoodschools
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1. I don’t live in Rockwood and never have.
2. There is no relationship.
3. Imig is not the subject of the news story, she is one of eight candidates mentioned in it.
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Charter school enrollment in St. Louis looks remarkably stable on the surface:
2012: 11,467
2023: 11,455
But the underlying churn is chaotic. In the last decade, 13 charter schools opened and 11 closed including six that opened AND closed.
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Such a privilege to tell this story of the Arazem refugee family on their first day
@AfftonSchools
.
@LaurieSkrivan
@NathanTMills
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The state heath department also regulates nursing homes, like the one in Florissant where a resident drowned in the bathtub and wasn’t discovered for 8 hours. No press release.
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Lindbergh School District joins Kirkwood in reinstating a universal mask mandate:
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Breaking: SLPS is temporarily suspending bus service to 6 high schools and 2 elementary schools, affecting 3,369 students. (Collegiate, Central VPA, Sumner, Gateway, Vashon, Roosevelt, Mallinckrodt and Wheeler)
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Riverview Gardens in north St. Louis County has 39 teaching vacancies. Some teachers will teach one classroom in-person, one classroom livestreamed, and switch rooms day to day.
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SLPS teachers organizing a protest Monday with demands for safe reopening of schools
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Whenever I get the "where did you hear about us" question I always click "newspaper" even if it's not true. Just doing my part to save journalism.😆
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Latest teacher hire at Gateway Science Academy charter school. No state certification, $25,800 salary.
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Anti-charter school protest today at Delmar Divine
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It’s just a building. It’s just a building. It’s just a building.
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Missouri will pay Odyssey $500,000 a year to administer the grants, which are for public and charter K-12 students. Some interesting parts of their application:
The legislature funded enough for about 16,500 grants, or less than 2% of Missouri’s public school students.
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"He never thought the kids would get to the gun." Family believes St. Louis boy was looking for candy when he found a gun – and killed his brother, 7
@MomsDemand
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The state heath department also regulates hospitals, like the one where a child was killed by nursing aides. No press release. Investigative reporting is the only reason this became public:
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The school choice movement is not a coalition. There are the charter advocates who want equal public dollars and more charters, religious groups that want public dollars, libertarians who want lower/no taxes, & homeschoolers who want to be left alone. The thru-line is anti-union.
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Hey public officials, don't hide behind HIPAA for not releasing workplace and other information on possible exposure to COVID-19 patients. You do it all the time for hepatitis, TB and other infectious diseases:
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The most beautiful, hidden neighborhood in St. Louis
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