Tax rate on residential property inches up; but property owners may not see hike The Affton School District Board of Education at its September meeting raised the residential tax rate about six cents per $100 of assessed value, but the typical Affton School District taxpayer likely won’t notice much of a change in the upcoming […]
Affton School District’s new Early Childhood Education Center on Reavis Road is complete, up and running, but as District Business Manager John Brazeal told the school board, “We’re not done yet.” An outdoor play area is a critical component of any ECEC, and Brazeal noted that one is not yet in place. Following a unanimous […]
Artwork will be painted “Affton purple” “The Affton School District’s Early Childhood Education Center — which Board Vice President Doug Beck calls “the best thing this board has done for the district in years” — is taking shape, as the countdown to fall’s grand opening continues. Enrollment projections are firming up. The renovation of the […]
Tech upgrades on hold pending state formula answers “The Affton School District’s ambitious five-year plan to upgrade technology balances finely on the $2 million or so it receives from the state, which is currently tinkering with the funding formula for public education. As a result, the board of education has put together a preliminary, “worst-case […]
“The families whose children attend the soon-to-close St. George Early Childhood Center on Heege Road will gain a tuition break, should they continue to enroll them in the new Affton Early Childhood Education Center. In February, the Affton Board of Education announced it was considering some changes to the initial tuition schedule it had established […]
“The Affton School Board followed the lead of dozens of public school districts across the state by passing a resolution in opposition to what some have derisively dubbed “The Everything Tax.” The resolution stated that the tax – a proposed consumption tax that would replace the state income tax – would “make Missouri’s already bad […]