The Children’s Education Council of Missouri submitted an opinion piece on the unanswered questions regarding legislation to merge the states two education departments. SJR 44 and SJR 45 would place a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that, if passed, would merge the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) with the Department of Higher [...]
Results are in on Missouri’s first-round application for the $4.35 billion “Race to the Top Fund” and they are not pretty. The state finished a distant 33rd out of 41 applicants. Forty states and the District of Columbia participated in the first round of the U.S. Department of Education’s competitive grant program, which aims to bolster states…
Debate on education reform finally came to Jefferson City this past week in the form of an amendment to an education omnibus bill that would allow for open enrollment across school district lines. The amendment was sponsored by Representative Scott Dieckhaus, a Republican from Washington, MO who said during the floor debate on his amendment ““I could not send my child to a district that was failing to provide my child’s educational needs, knowing every day they were not giving my child the foundation he needs to succeed in life.”
Reviewers of Missouri’s $743.5 million Race to the Top application also had numerous negative comments for the state’s application as it related to conditions in the state for significant education reforms. Below are some of the commentstaken directly from the review forms.
