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Board votes to end external SCOPE partnership, move Missouri Options back to Melville and Oakville high schools
Summary
After public comment warning that closing the alternative SCOPE school could harm vulnerable students, the board voted to end the South St. Louis County Management School partnership and to relocate Missouri Options programming into the district’s two high schools; staff will finalize transition plans and meet individually with affected employees.
The Mehlville R-IX Board of Education voted March 12 to end the district’s partnership with the South St. Louis County Management School and to relocate the Missouri Options program back into the district’s two high schools.
The vote followed a public comment by Chris Tyson, a 25‑year Melville educator, who urged trustees not to close the alternative SCOPE program. Tyson told the board that moving suspended and credit‑deficient students entirely to virtual instruction would “unequivocally harm students,” and he recounted anonymized student examples…
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