K-12 Education

The RBC is committed to ensuring that all our children have access to a quality education with the opportunity to learn and excel. The RBC invests substantial resources and energy in the region’s future by taking an active, hands-on collaborative role to improve student achievement in the St. Louis Public School System.

• St. Louis Public Schools. Instrumental in the RBC’s hands-on approach at all levels of the St. Louis Public School District, are partnerships with many civic and community organizations. These partnerships provide necessary resources to the teachers and students. The RBC supports the Special Administrative Board as a way to bring stability to the District.

• Teach For America. RBC supports Teach For America as an organization producing significant results in the academic achievement of students within the St. Louis Public School System.

• KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program). The RBC supports the KIPP educational model as a proven, effective public education curriculum that provides quality instruction to students with charted academic results.

• Vashon Education Compact. During the course of its involvement with the Compact and Dunbar Elementary School to institute educational reforms to improve student achievement within the St. Louis Public School System, the RBC contributed more than $500,000.

“We’re taking an active, collaborative role in improving student achievement in St. Louis public schools. It’s time to improve student achievement in the SLPS. No civic challenge is more critical or more rewarding.”

Frederick J. Oertli

President and CEO Guarantee Electrical Company