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Missouri Senate hears speakers on school choice billOzark Radio News

Jefferson City, MO. On Tuesday, the Missouri Senate Education and Workforce Development Committee spent time on Senate Bill 5. Senator Andrew Koenig of Manchester says this measure seeks to allow the enrollment of nonresident students in public school districts: The bill would create the Parent Public School Choice Fund, pulling $60 million from state appropriations. Information was given during the hearing by Susan Pendergrass of the Show Me Institute, a conservative think-tank based in St. Louis, and Dr. Sean Kirksy, superintendent of the Camdenton School District, who returned to the school in 2021 after agreeing to leave the position of Camdenton middle school principal in 2013 following state assessment testing issues. Multiple pro-charter speakers stood as witnesses for the bill such as lobbyist Tricia Workman of the Missouri Charter Public school association and Tashayla Person of the Quality Schools coalition. Witnesses against the bill included Gail Griswold of the Camdenton ....

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House sends open enrollment, charter funding bills to Senate

A pair of education bills supported by school-choice advocates narrowly passed out of the Missouri House on Wednesday, overcoming a diminished GOP majority that had threatened to doom their chances earlier in the legislative session. ....

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Missouri House approves open enrollment, charter funding bills

With fewer Republican lawmakers in the legislature who have previously supported school choice measures, compromises were made to secure the bills’ passage ....

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Missouri may force Kansas City Public Schools to transfer more than $8 million to charters

The charter school funding measure is one of two bills backed by school-choice advocates that have now been sent to the Missouri Senate. The other would allow students to transfer to schools outside their district. ....

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