Charter school expansion on the table again in Missouri

BY KATHRYN PALMER, Columbia Missourian
JEFFERSON CITY — Carmen Ward’s teenage son Paul was diagnosed with autism and intellectual disabilities at the age of five.
Paul bounced around public and private elementary schools in St. Louis for years, but it wasn’t until he reached fifth grade that Ward found somewhere that met her son’s special educational needs: KIPP St. Louis Public Schools, part of a national nonprofit network of public charter schools.