School board election results

Izzy Colón and Thomas Birmingham

April 3, 2019

Filed under Showcase

Kirkwood citizens came out to the polls on Tuesday, April 2 to cast their votes in the school board election. Mark Boyko and Darnel Frost were elected. The results were updated throughout the night by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. TKC compiled the final results:   Frost - 4,266 40% Boyko - 3,700 34.7% Ricks -2,593 ...

Update: Controversy around Tom Ricks grows as Kirkwood responds to pastoral letter

Thomas Birmingham, Maisie Bradley, Izzy Colón, and Logan Crews

March 31, 2019

Filed under Top Stories

Grant Trokey, 2016 KHS graduate, had attended Greentree Community Church for as long as he could remember. For two years during high school, he played with the worship band a few times a month and attended camps with the church. Then, at age 18, he came out as gay. Within a month, he found he was no lon...

A concluded search: welcome Dr. Jeff Arnett

Megan Cleveland, features writer

January 23, 2018

Filed under News

New KSD superintendent announced

Megan Cleveland and Hannah Cohen

January 13, 2018

Filed under News

The Kirkwood School Board (KSB) announced who will be taking former Superintendent Tom Williams' role after a year with former Nipher Middle School Principal Michele Condon as interim for the 2017-18 school year. After months of discussion and interviewing, the Board appointed current Deputy Superint...

Search for a superintendent update

Megan Cleveland, features writer

January 5, 2018

Filed under News, Top Stories

After a year of evaluating resumés, the KSD school board expects to announce the new superintendent in January 2018. During the search for the new permanent superintendent, Dr. Michele Condon is serving as the interim, or temporary, superintendent and will step down June 30, 2018. “I wanted to...