ST. LOUIS, March 22 — The Missouri State Board of Education voted on Thursday to take control of the troubled St. Louis public schools.
At an emotional meeting in Jefferson City that was interrupted by students who had arrived by bus from here to protest the expected decision, the board voted, 5 to 1, to strip the St. Louis Public School District of its accreditation, effective June 15.
The board also voted to provide for a transitional three-member panel appointed by state and local officials to run the city’s 93 public schools, many of which are old and run-down. The district’s seven-member school board will remain intact, but will have no governing authority.
The governor, the mayor of St. Louis and the president of the city’s Board of Aldermen will each appoint one-member to the transition panel.
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