[AD from SpringBay]

Half of all high school freshmen quit before graduation. Less than 7 percent of juniors scored "proficient" on a state reading and writing test...

The head of the teachers union...said she thinks the quality of education "is going to be suspect this year" because the new administration had poisoned the atmosphere.

This head of the teacher's union is a dumba$$. The quality of the education was already suspect and the atmosphere was already poisonous. Unless she was thinking 50% high school freshmen retention and 7% high school junior reading proficiency was acceptable. If you close your eyes and breath deeply on this one you can almost smell the graft.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Wasn't it St. Louis, in a bizarre attempt to draw fleeing whites back, that poured hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars into their school system to have state of the art, gold-plated everything? I guess they should have poured all that money into good teachers (not the stuff LIBERAL schools of education are manufacturing) instead of the usual educrat experiment.