According to the U.S. Department of Education, 26 schools with at least 3,000 students posted single-digit acceptance rates for fall 2023, up from 22 in 2022. Here's how local schools stacked up for selectivity.
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s system for rating schools came under fire Tuesday morning as the State Board of Education looked at the accreditation status of districts.
Questions about the department’s system arose as Kerry Casey, a board member from Chesterfield, pushed for St. Louis Public Schools to be demoted from fully accredited to provisional accreditation.
“I’m very concerned as I read the paper daily here in St. Louis about the failures of the…
A Kansas City-area credit union has advanced its expansion into the St. Louis metro area through a tie-in with a credit union based in St. Louis County.
The CEO of Panera Brands Inc., the St. Louis-based parent company of Panera Bread and several other restaurant chains, has left the business and an interim CEO has been named.
Former Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner spent more than $50,000 without permission and allowed the rate of cases processed to crater while spending nearly 35 work days taking nursing courses, an audit from the Missouri state auditor said.
"Taxpayers should be outraged by how this office was run into the ground by Gardner at the same time she was using tax dollars to throw parties for her staff, and to pay for her personal legal fees that were a result of her own incompetence," Missouri State Auditor…
Mercy Health has rejected allegations in a lawsuit that it retaliated against a construction firm for reporting possible wrongdoing by two former health system executives.
As a new legislator in 2023, Missouri state Rep. Justin Sparks became the leading advocate for a proposal to create a child care facility serving employees of the St. Louis County Police Department.
A few months after lawmakers approved spending $6 million from federal Covid relief funds to create the center, Sparks took a job with the organization in charge of the project, the National Law Enforcement Foundation.
So far, the foundation, created in 2022, has used $3.7 million of the funding.
Sparks,…
An education advocate filed a federal lawsuit Monday against St. Louis Public School Board alleging it illegally banned him from meetings and district property.
Chester Asher, founder of Coalition for STL Kids, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Missouri with the help of the First Amendment Clinic at Washington University in St. Louis. He alleges the ban violated his constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
Named as defendants…
The St. Louis Business Journal has opened up the nomination process for every 2025 awards program — from the Corporate Philanthropy Awards, celebrated in May, to the 40 Under 40 Awards, recognized in November.
The 2025 awards lineup includes the return of some signature programs, like the Most Influential Business Women Awards and our Champions for Diversity & Inclusion program. It also includes the Business of Pride Awards, the Family Business Awards, the Corporate Counsel Awards and our Best…
The St. Louis Blues will air three games later this season on KMOV-TV (Channel 4) and sister station Matrix Midwest in a “test” of broadcasting games on over-the-air television.
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones was out of town on work trips at least 64 times during her first 42 months in high office, a major departure from the practices of her predecessors but a strategy she says is paying dividends for the city.
We're starting a podcast this week. It's called the Arch City Report and will feature staff of the St. Louis Business Journal newsroom discussing their work on the biggest stories of the week. You can download it on Thursdays.
Now that we've got that out of the way, and before I go any further, I know what you're thinking: "Who doesn't have a podcast, right?"
It's not a silly thing to ask, and for good reason. The medium may have been around for 20 years, but it's ceased being a pop culture novelty.…
The February 2024 tie-up resulted in a new Am Law 200 law firm with about 275 attorneys in nine offices and about $150 million in gross annual revenue.
There was progress in 2024 towards finding solutions to some of the biggest vacancies in downtown St. Louis. However, much work remains in redevelopment, with 2025 poised to be a big year in seeing if plans advance.
Two of the St. Louis area's largest grocery chains announced they would close stores early again Monday after a snow and ice storm moved out of the area but left road conditions treacherous.
All Dierbergs Markets locations will close at 3 p.m. on Monday, a day after they closed early on Sunday. A spokesperson for Dierbergs said they plan to reopen stores Tuesday at 6 a.m.
Schnucks' locations in the following areas will close at 3 p.m. again on Monday:
St. Louis metropolitan area (Including St.…
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