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Republican lawmakers seek to curb local control over COVID-19 health orders By Tessa Weinberg Local control. On Wednesday, a Missouri Senate committee debated a slew of bills filed by Republican lawmakers that aim to strip local authority from city and county officials and health boards during states of emergency. Some bills would limit how often local public health orders and regulations can be implemented, including no more than a cumulative 30 days every 60 days or 14 days in a two-year period, unless approved by the legislature. Others would impose a 30-day comment period on such orders a...

Missouri Senator proposes to close some underperforming K-12 schools The chair of the Missouri Senate Education Committee wants to shut down some of the state’s underperforming K-12 public schools. Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin, R-Shelbina, has pre-filed a bill that would require the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to publish online each year a list of Missouri schools that perform within the bottom 5% of schools for more than three years and designate them as a “persistently failing school”. Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin (Photo courtesy of Missouri Senate) Under Senate Bill ...

(The Center Square) — Missouri’s underperforming K-12 schools could be forced to transfer students to other schools, allow the district to authorize a charter school to replace it, or be shuttered if it does not show improvements. Senate Bill 133, sponsored by Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin, R-Shelbina, would require the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to publish an annual ranking of Missouri K-12 schools performing within the bottom 5 percent of state schools under standards set by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). A school that lands i...

by John Haughey, The Center Square  | December 15, 2020 01:00 PM Print this article Missouri’s underperforming K-12 schools could be forced to transfer students to other schools, allow the district to authorize a charter school to replace it, or be shuttered if it does not show improvements. Senate Bill 133, sponsored by Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin, R-Shelbina, would require the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to publish an annual ranking of Missouri K-12 schools performing within the bottom 5 percent of state schools under s...