Tuition Increase Requested for MRH Preschool Program

The fee increase in the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District is needed because of a Missouri grant that is being phased out, an administrator said Thursday.

Preschool fee increases are being sought for the coming school year in the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District in an effort to compensate for a grant Missouri is eliminating. The district wants to raise tuition from $32 to $36 per day and from $15 to $17 per half-day, said Dr. Cyndi Hebenstreit, principal of the MRH Early Childhood Center. She spoke Thursday during a presentation to the MRH Board of Education. Costs for the families of students participating in the free or reduced-cost lunch program would be half of those proposed. The request comes as the state prepares to phase out the Missouri Preschool Project grant by the 2014-15 school year. That grant accounts for $73,000, or approximately 17 percent, of the MRH preschool …

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Resale Store's Proceeds Help Students Get Interest-Free Loans

Clayton's ScholarShop offers discounted clothes for shoppers and tuition money for students.

Clayton's ScholarShop looks like any other department store. It has a women's section, menswear and children's clothes as well as a broad selection of jewelry, ties, shoes and other accessories. It features both famous brands and those that even the most overzealous shopper has never come across. Most department stores, though, won't give away more than 600 interest-free loans and grants to students in the greater St. Louis area. Nor will they receive all of their shop's apparel from high-quality donations. More than 8,000 households and businesses donate clothes each year, and those donations get the ball rolling on funding scholarships and loans, said LaTia King, external director of the Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis. "The net …

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