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School board member Julie Backer responds to accusations

Ally Ortmann, associate editor February 4, 2020

At an impromptu meeting, Kirkwood School District Board of Education President Darnel Frost asked board members to look into censuring fellow board member Julie Backer Feb. 1. Frost then called for Backer...

Kirkwood citizens came out to the polls on Tuesday, April 2 to cast their votes in the school board election.

School board election results

Izzy Colón and Thomas Birmingham April 3, 2019

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...

Ricks, lead pastor at Greentree Community Church and Kirkwood School Board candidate, sent a pastoral letter to his congregation in May 2016 which stated homosexuality as a sin.

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

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...

Ricks, lead pastor at Greentree Community Church and Kirkwood School Board candidate, sent a pastoral letter to his congregation in May 2016 which stated homosexuality as a sin.

Pastoral letter from school board candidate Tom Ricks causes controversy online

With the Kirkwood School Board election approaching Tuesday April 2, Jake Lyonfields, a self-described community organizer, made a Facebook post calling to #RejectRicks on Sunday March 24. The “Ricks”...

Mind The Gap: Racial Achievement at KHS

Mind The Gap: Racial Achievement at KHS

Elliott Notrica, writer May 2, 2018

Although every student at KHS sits at the same desks and walks the same halls, each individual does not necessarily have equal educational opportunities. A 2015 KSD task force report, co-chaired by previous...

Not-so-socially-acceptable media

Not-so-socially-acceptable media

Mimi Wright, editor-in-chief February 1, 2016

If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. In elementary school, I was taught this little piece of advice to avoid petty fights with my friends on the playground. I was...

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