by Mike Lear | Jan 16, 2014 | Education, News
When the state legislature puts together a budget to meet needs that have come up since the new fiscal year began, the Education Department wants it to include 6.8-million dollars to keep the Normandy School District afloat for a few more months. Education...
by Mike Lear | Jan 15, 2014 | Education, News, Politics / Govt
The State Auditor’s Office will review the process by which the Department of Education awarded a contact to Indianapolis-based Cities for Education Entrepreneurship Trust (CEE-Trust) for it to develop a plan by which the Kansas City Public School District could...
by Mike Lear | Nov 22, 2013 | Education, News
Missouri’s Commissioner of Education says she and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education did nothing unusual in working with a lobbyist on the development of a ballot initiative. The Missouri chapter of the National Education Association obtained...
by Mike Lear | Nov 21, 2013 | Education, News
The Missouri chapter of a national teachers’ union says the state’s education commissioner went too far in working with lobbyists creating a ballot initiative to eliminate teacher tenure and institute evaluations based on student performance. The...
