On Tuesday, January 27 the Joint Education Committee presented their interim studies at a hearing of the committee.  Each of the studies were required as part of SB 291, passed during the 2009 session.
The first study presented was a study of charter school achievement in the state, looking at value-added estimates of charter and non-charter [...]

In mid-January Missouri applied for nearly $750 million of the U.S. Department of Education’s $4.35 billion ‘Race to the Top’ program…. that application can only be described as incomplete without a push for expanding charter schools.

Fresh on the minds of Missouri education reformers is an effort to expand charter public schools in Missouri. The original legislation passed to allow charter schools in Missouri limited them to opening, and accepting students, only in the St. Louis and Kansas City public school districts. There is a new movement to lift [...]

The legislature returned to Jefferson City to begin the 2010 session on January 6 and education reform legislation is already a hot topic of discussion. Despite budgetary concerns limiting what is likely to be considered this session, items with little or no impact on state finances are rising to the top of the education [...]

The legislature returned to Jefferson City to begin the 2010 session on January 6 and education reform legislation is already a hot topic of discussion.  Despite budgetary concerns limiting what is likely to be considered this session, items with little or no impact on state finances are rising to the top of the education reform [...]

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Click Here to see the PDF of MPA’s 2009 Thanksgiving Appeal.

We are desperately in need of new, high-quality teachers, and we know that there is money available for the express purpose of offering merit pay to encourage and keep good teachers. Missouri can’t hesitate to pay our good teachers for the excellent work they do.

To Be and to Have is a French documentary detailing the day-to-day interaction of a one-room school house teacher and his students of widely varied skills and ages. I watched it a few nights ago – it’s available to watch instantly on Netflix – and while the concept of a single rural school teacher educating every local child seems outmoded and old-fashioned, I was struck by how much individual attention this teacher afforded to each student.