Jefferson Elementary and Southeast Missouri State University want parents to begin looking now at the possibility of sending their child to college. The first-ever College Night was held Feb. 28 at Jefferson for families of third and fourth graders...

"It is like Dorothy said," Blanchard Elementary principal Dr. Barbara Kohlfeld joked to me this morning when I visited the school. "There is no place like home." Students went back to their regular classrooms today after attending classes at Lynwood Baptist Church since the week of Dec. 6, when a fire damaged several rooms and adjoining hallways in the school...

Alma Schrader Elementary PTO president Robin McCollough submitted a letter to principal Ruth Ann Orr Tuesday expressing her intent to resign her position in the organization effective Feb. 1. "Please understand the last six years have been great until the last month, and I cannot believe the mean-spirited, hateful, condemning and ugliness that has come about due to the 'uniform policy' and the way people are treating one another," McCollough wrote...

I've requested and I am waiting for Cape public schools to send me documents containing changes to the proposed dress code policy that committee members determined last night. Principal of Cape Girardeau Central Junior High and committee chair Carla Fee said this morning there are "four or five" changes...

Tonight comes the first chance for parents of Cape Girardeau public school students to hear firsthand from the district's dress code committee why they believe a uniform policy should be adopted at the beginning of the next school year. I've noticed on the Facebook group Parents who want a voice regarding the Uniform Policy for CGPS that traffic has increased steadily as the time for the forum draws near...