Voters approved the Mehlville School District’s Proposition S bond issue with more than 80 percent of the vote Tuesday, the first time voters passed a bond issue since 1992.
South County voters also approved Hancock Place School District’s Proposition R bond issue, which is also a no-tax-rate-increase bond issue.
Mehlville had been the only school district in St. Louis County without a bond issue to fund facilities. Proposition S, a 12-cent, $35 million bond issue, will use part of the funds left from paying off the lease approved by 2000’s Proposition P for facilities to fund secure vestibule entrances at all 18 of Mehlville’s schools, along with basic maintenance and accessibility at all schools. Proposition S stood for “Safe Schools, Safe Kids.”
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MSD has a bond issue, Proposition Y, on the ballot. Voters will decide how they want to pay for upgrades required by the federal government: Pay as you go, in which case rates will be much higher, or a bond issue, in which rates will still rise but not nearly as much.
UMSL awarded $5.1 million grant to improve literacy in the St. Louis region
In total, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education received $18 million to be distributed over a period of five years
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ST. LOUIS The University of Missouri - St. Louis has been awarded a $5.1 million grant that will go toward improving literacy at 40 St. Louis-area schools.
According to a release, the U.S. Department of Education awarded 11 state education organizations grants for its Comprehensive Literacy State Development program. In total, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education received $18 million to be distributed over a period of five years. In St. Louis, UMSL’s $5.1 million portion comes from two awards that promote evidence-based literacy strategies and digital literacy resources. In addition, the program
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Leslie Forsythe, a substitute teacher at the Affton Early Childhood Center, coaxes a student into a classroom on the first day of school Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019.
Increased recruitment, pay incentives and easing of certification requirements have helped fill the substitute teacher pool, but there remains a shortage of subs, especially during a pandemic.
The substitute teacher pool in Missouri is not bone dry, but it is still in drought conditions as more classrooms welcome back students in the second semester.
Staffing shortages in the fall hindered efforts to get more students physically back into school. Some districts closed high schools again or delayed reopenings to concentrate staff on elementary schools. But several St. Louis area districts are opening middle and high schools for the second semester, which could again strain staffing.
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Leslie Forsythe, a substitute teacher in Affton, coaxes a student into a classroom in August 2019. Districts are having a harder time finding eager subs during the pandemic.
The substitute teacher pool in Missouri is not bone dry, but it is still in drought conditions as more classrooms welcome back students in the second semester.
Staffing shortages in the fall hindered efforts to get more students physically back into school. Some districts closed high schools again or delayed reopenings to concentrate staff on elementary schools. But several St. Louis area districts are opening middle and high schools for the second semester, which could again strain staffing.