I’ve got 500 two-sided, three-color yard signs to move from my living room to in front of your city home or business. Pick one up this Saturday, January 18, between 3 and 5 at Steve’s Hot Dogs (3145 South Grand Blvd / 63118). If Saturday doesn’t work for you, get in touch, and we can make other arrangements.
Help spread the word by taking a picture of you with your sign and posting it on social media with the hashtag #marstonforschoolboard.
Thanks again to Ken Zarecki for the design. They were silkscreen printed by union sign shop O.R. Pechman.
It took some work to condense the data into these two tables. The racial (and ethnic) categories, ages, and years for the two data sources don’t align perfectly, but I don’t think that significantly impacts the summary statistics.
Back in 1996, when the web was young and so was I, I was a research associate at the Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis. It was my job to post the underlying data for the first table above on the web for MO DESE.
Putting the two tables together and doing a little additional calculation reveals that 55% of Black kids in the city between the ages of five and 19 attend an SLPS school, but only 19% of white kids do. Overall, only 40% of kids age five to 19 are enrolled in SLPS.
Another way to look at it is that there are 2.2 times as many Black school-age kids in the city as white kids, but there are 6.3 times as many Black kids in SLPS.
I have 1,000 campaign business cards in hand from union printer The Ink Spot. They were designed by the one, Z only, Ken Zarecki. Let me know if you’d like some to pass out to city voters.
My list of individual endorsements is coming along. I’m grateful to be backed by such a stellar crew.
To help aggregate posts about my campaign and elevate their visibility on social media, use the hashtag #marstonforschoolboard.
I closed out 2024 with a total of $2,331 in campaign contributions (thank you!) and 1,084 page views on this site. 79% of the website traffic has been from people on mobile devices (phones). Something no one except Google and I care about is that the site is rocking it on PageSpeed Insights. (I’ve never seen a site get 4 x 100% before.)
I’m Brian Henry Marston. My dad is Richard Henry. His dad was Henry Arnold. His dad was Henry Joseph. My son is Milo Henry. The “H” is a reminder of those who came before me and those coming after me. It also helps disambiguate me from the other Brian Marstons out there in search results.
Three Henrys: My grandpa, dad, and me. New Year’s Day 2003.
Today, I attended the winter concert at an SLPS elementary school (a joyful celebration) and a St. Louis Public Radio community listening session about the district (an intense discussion).
