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Missouri Senators, K-12 community work to navigate underperforming school problems The coronavirus pandemic’s increased challenges in education have fueled the Missouri Legislature’s efforts this session to make school choice measures a priority. Debate about these bills have been very heated at times. Photo courtesy of Tim Bommel, House Communications On Tuesday, the Missouri Senate Education Committee and representatives of the state’s K-12 public education world instead had a heart-to-heart about ways to address academic achievement levels within public schools. Their discussion cent...

Missourinet You are here: Home What we’re watching this week in the Missouri Legislature Missouri legislative committees will hear several bills this week involving education, elections, and celebrations with gunfire. The Missouri Senate Education Committee meets Tuesday at noon to hear a bill from committee chairwoman State Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin, R-Shelbina. It requires the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to annually publish a list of schools on its website that perform in the bottom five percent of schools for more than three years. Under O’Laughlin’s b...

Local school officials meet with Missouri lawmaker over controversial school bill Unmute SHELBY COUNTY, Mo. (WGEM) -- Missouri state senator Cindy O'Laughlin met with a number of local superintendents and school board members on Saturday to discuss their concerns with Senate Bill 55, a bill O'Laughlin is one of the main sponsors for. Knox County R-1 superintendent Andy Turgeon said their biggest concern with the legislation is how it could take funding away from public schools. He said the bill would allow parents to use state tax-credit vouchers to pay for private...

Missouri House advances school choice bill as sweeping package stalls in Senate Jeanne Kuang, The Kansas City Star Feb. 25—JEFFERSON CITY — A measure that would allow the state to direct $50 million of public money a year toward private school for Missouri students moved forward in the state House Wednesday while a more sweeping school choice bill stalled in the Senate. The bill expanding school choice is one of several that have gained momentum in the Missouri legislature this year amid a rise in parental frustrations with public schools, some which have remained closed f...

PALMYRA, Mo. — Members of the Palmyra R-I Board of Education drafted a resolution opposing Senate Bill 55 during their regular meeting Wednesday, Feb. 9. Superintendent Kirt Malone presented his legislative report to board members, discussing Senate Bill 55 sponsored by Sen. Cindy O'Laughlin (R-18). Malone said the bill would take large amounts of tax dollars from public schools and give them to private schools in St. Louis, newly-formed charter schools in Kansas City and St. Louis and out-of-state virtual school companies. The board members unanimously approved a resolution in oppositio...