The union that represents about 2,000 St. Louis Public Schools teachers and staff said it has no confidence in Superintendent Millicent Borishade’s leadership.

The petition was approved unanimously by the union’s executive board and was signed by over two-thirds of its members.

Byron Clemens, the union spokesperson, delivered the petition to Board of Education President Karen Collins-Adams on Monday. The board is responsible for the hiring and firing of a school district’s superintendent.

Clemens said the union’s members took issue with the timing of a report shared by Borishade in July that proposed closing over half of the district’s schools — a move that is likely to result in staff layoffs.

“Our problem is with issuing it just before the opening of school. … Some of our paren

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