The Missouri State Board of Education is expected to vote on the accreditation statuses of over 500 districts across the state next year.

The "Future Ready SLPS" report outlines an overhaul of the city's public school system in the face of decades of declining enrollment and ballooning costs of salaries, benefits and transportation along with aging infrastructure that is proving too expensive to maintain.

On spring weekends across the St. Louis area, girls are filling football fields once dominated by boys—pulling flags, scoring touchdowns and building one of the region's fastest-growing youth sports.