Mike McMillan receives Trumpet Award Honored alongside Chaka Khan, Alonzo Mourning, Mayor Kasim Reed
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Vol. 84 No. 46
CAC Audited FEBRUARY 14 – 20, 2013
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Tiffany Anderson returns to head Jennings schools
French rips Post on Slay, Reed coverage By Rebecca S. Rivas Of the St. Louis American St. Louis American: As an elected official and journalist, what do you think of the St. Louis Post Dispatch’s coverage of the Lewis Reed campaign for mayor?
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Jennings School District Superintendent Brittany Anderson, a St. Louis native, gets a student’s eye view in Letty Wright-Hardin’s classroom at Woodland Elementary School.
‘Good schools are the center of any community’ By Rebecca S. Rivas Of The St. Louis American Just before lunch, Jennings School District Superintendent Tiffany Anderson takes her place on the kindergarteners’ carpet at Woodland Elementary and joins them in their giggles. Her signature tennis shoes allow her to pop down easily, even in her professional dark gray
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www.stlamerican.com skirt suit. They’re playing a question game with high stakes – a treat if they get the right answer. “Math, science, social studies or spelling?” Letty Wright-Hardin, kindergarten teacher, asks
one of the squirming children. Anderson’s eyes brighten even more than the students’. “Every morning I wake up, and I can’t wait to get here and get started,” Anderson said. “I wear tennis shoes every day so that I can be the crossing guard when I need to. I can visit a different school every week. I bring the energy to
A mother’s journey to understand, cope and give care Charlie was always a happy baby. He crawled when he was supposed to, he looked when you called his name and he was hitting all of his milestones. There were a few developmental delays, but there was no cause for immediate alarm. We enrolled Charlie in swimming lessons when he was eight months old. He loved to swim, and today he swims like a fish. He began to develop ear infections, two or three a year. At first, we didn’t Angela think anything of it because we thought it was from Quigless the pool. My husband, a doctor, suggested I take Charlie to Children’s Hospital for testing, just to be safe. I thought, worst case scenario, they might have to put tubes in his ears. I never thought the doctors
It’s a hard pill to swallow, but don’t do a disservice to your child by neglecting early intervention.
Charlie Quigless
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MY AUTISTIC SON By Judge Angela Quigless For The St. Louis American
Alderman Antonio French: Over the course of the past year, the Post-Dispatch has “Both Clay let me know clearly and Nasheed where they stand. In an editorial by serve one Kevin Horrigan purpose in the almost a year ago, Slay campaign, during the time we and that is to were debating the fire pension reform suppress and bill, they clearly confuse the pointed out their vote for an opinion that they Africandon’t think Lewis Reed should be American mayor. It was out of candidate.” nowhere. They wrote that – Alderman his support of a difAntonio French ferent approach to the pension reform meant that he was not qualified to be mayor. They printed what amounted to an early endorsement of Slay. Then again, during the coverage of the O’Fallon Park Recreation Center and the
Urban schools excel in science contest KIPP, Gateway go against suburban students at Olympiad By Bridjes O’Neil Of The St. Louis American
would diagnose Charlie with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. When the doctor told me that Charlie had autism and would never be “normal,” I zoned out. I didn’t absorb it. I had never even heard of autism until my son received this diagnosis. I remember sitting there thinking that this doctor was trying to label my child. After all, Charlie was just
KIPP Inspire Academy students excelled in the regional Missouri Science Olympiad Tournament held earlier this month at Ladue Middle School. The KIPP Inspire Science Olympiad team was one of only two innercity schools competing in the middle school division. The nonprofit Missouri Science Olympiad and its national affiliate strive to improve the quality of K-12 science education and
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