LaTricia Smallwood’s mind filled with questions as she joined parents inside Beginning Futures Early Childhood Center in St. Louis’s Walnut Park neighborhood. It was time...
Tanesia Simmons joined The Opportunity Trust as partner working to empower and support the most marginalized families and students, and to design and drive change...
One evening in late August, nine St. Louis students, parents, and educators gathered around a conference table to read through grant applications and award a...
In 2020, the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice brought increased attention to the St. Louis education system’s profound inequities. These events caused Sherita...
With school schedules and enrollment timelines in flux, families are faced with even greater barriers to finding the best school for their children. Many of...
Krystal Barnett launched Bridge 2 Hope in 2019 to unite parents and grandparents exasperated by the lack of quality school options to demand responsiveness from...
The city’s history of segregation and subsequent attempts to integrate schools have left St. Louis with a fractured school landscape full of options but lacking in...
We believe every parent or guardian wants the best for the children in their care. However, families in St. Louis are often held back by...
St. Louis families have access to a wide variety of schools—public, charter, private, and specialty—but reliable information is hard to find. This lack of access...
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