Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis sponsors K-12 students from ICA in Gateway Chess League Scholastic Tournament.

Fifth annual Creating Original Music Project honors 31 Missouri students – Latest on University of Missouri & Sinquefield Charitable Foundation venture.

Two major chess tournaments will be held July 9-19 concurrently at CCSCSL, giving St. Louis the the triple crown! Read about it here.

To expose struggles in Missouri schools, CEAM sponsors a blog on their website from a St. Louis Public School District teacher.

2010 U.S. Chess Championship offers a purse over $170,000 and a dramatic–ending format–held May 13-25 again in Saint Louis, the Chess City of the Year

Papers were filed today with the Missouri Ethics Commission to establish a ballot measure committee in support of a statewide voter initiative dealing with local earnings taxes in Missouri. The group, named Let Voters Decide, will soon start gathering the roughly 100,000 voter signatures needed to place the initiative on the November 2010 statewide ballot.

Children’s Education Council of Missouri has created a Twitter-utilizing section on their website to help foster political discussion and accountability

The tournament is now scheduled from May 13-25 at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis and will more than $170,000 up for grabs.

SCF donated $100,000 to Teach For America, a non-profit that recruits top college graduates to teach for two years in low-income communities.

Hundreds of donors contributed $45,000 to St. Vincent Home for Children at the third annual benefit held Dec. 9 at the Four Seasons Hotel in St. Louis.