Local students present on school integration

Student representatives from Gateway2change (a resource of EducationPlus) attended the National Coalition on School Diversity Conference in Washington, D.C. on September 24 - 25. As a result of their work last year during the Student Summits on Race, these...

MediaDrew SchwartzOctober 7, 2015Drew Schwartz, St Louis American, Movement For Diversity, Gateway2changeComment

Rockwood Students Help Foster Change in Washington D.C. and St. Louis

Eureka High School junior Ellie Bennett works hard to spread the message of equality whenever she can. “I think because I'm a student, and because I'm young, I can add a new perspective on the issue of diversity and race,” she said, “especially diversity and race pertaining to schools.”

Missouri school administrators gather ahead of new school year

Missouri school administrators are heading back to school just one month before the new school year gets underway. The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education kicked off its 54th annual Cooperative Conference for School Administrators in Columbia, which gathers administrators for three days to have them talk to...

KRHS Media Will Rivers interviews "Gateway2change" Leadership

On May 8, EducationPlus will reunite the original 14 schools, including Ritenour High Schools Social Justice Club, who came together to change the racial diversity in the St. Louis regional schools...

MediaDrew SchwartzApril 27, 2015Drew Schwartz, Ritenour High School, Social Justice Club, Gateway2changeComment

High schoolers reconvene for discussions on race, bridging divides

Facing peers from 18 area high schools, a panel of students in the Ritenour High School auditorium on Wednesday honed in on racial divisions they wish didn’t exist, but do, and the work they’ve begun to dissolve them.

“STL Student Summit on Race” brings 14 schools together

High school students from all over our area came together today to try and improve race relations. It was all part of the “STL Student Summit on Race Movement.” More than 100 students from 14 schools gathered at Rittenour High School in St. John. This was the second time the...

Drew SchwartzFebruary 26, 2015Comment

Second Student Summit On Race Held At Ritenour High School

Students from around the area are continuing their efforts to promote racial harmony. Over a hundred students from area high schools attended a second Student Youth Summit on Race at Ritenour High School Wednesday morning. Delaney Chapman, a junior at Francis Howell North, says youth a have a big influence when it comes to improving […]

High schoolers from around St. Louis work toward change at race summit

Students from 14 high schools sat around tables discussing race issues at a student summit Thursday when several from Ferguson’s McCluer High made a decision. They wanted to join their table with that of Parkway North, a majority white school at least 20 minutes away from where Michael Brown, a black teenager, was fatally shot by....