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The local chapters want to improve literacy rates in the region, launching the "Right to Read" campaign with a mission to get children 鈥 especially Black children 鈥 proficient in fourth grade reading by 2030.
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Lynn Weaks doesn鈥檛 have internet access at home. A smartphone, she said, 鈥渨as basically all I had.鈥滺er four children often stayed after school at Ashland鈥
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How the Missouri education department measures student comprehension and school performance is complicated. The manual for determining a school鈥檚鈥
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Third-grader students who live in low-income homes underperformed their more well-off classmates by 50 percentage points in seven Illinois school鈥
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Updated 2:38 p.m. March 30 with clarification from Education Cities organization: New data show that public schools in St. Louis and some area suburbs鈥
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 27, 2013 - 鈥淲hat we鈥檙e after is the causes for the failure in unaccredited districts, then what鈥
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 20, 2012 - 'Tis the season for school. Classes are starting. Supplies have been purchased. It鈥檚鈥
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 4, 2012 - Data available for the first time have confirmed what officials in charge of the area鈥檚鈥
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This first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 21, 2012 - Update on earlier story: Missouri education officials today filed their application for the鈥
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 16, 2012 - With the first 10 states winning waivers from Washington from the mandates of No鈥