by Mike Lear | May 1, 2014 | Education, News
The state House has approved a plan to change a 21-year-old law that lets students transfer out of failing schools into better ones. House Republicans pared back significantly a provision that would make private schools one of the places those students could go....
by Mike Lear | Apr 30, 2014 | Education, News, Politics / Govt
A state representative says he didn’t really want the House to debate proposed changes to Missouri’s student transfer law in private. Representative Josh Peters (D-St. Louis) said in a press release he planned to make a motion to use a rule that exists in...
by Mike Lear | Apr 28, 2014 | Education, News
The state House is anticipated to take up this week legislation meant to fix the state’s student transfer law. One of the biggest points of disagreement on the legislation is about a provision that would allow students in unaccredited schools in unaccredited...
by Mike Lear | Apr 28, 2014 | News
Child advocates say there are changes made in the proposed rewrite of Missouri’s criminal code that are good for children. Deputy Director of Missouri Kids First Emily van Schenkhof was involved closely in the development of the legislation. She says one of the...
by Mike Lear | Apr 25, 2014 | Health / Medicine, News
Missourians who suffer from treatment resistant epilepsy could be allowed to take an extract from cannabis under a law the House passed Thursday. The bill would allow use of a hemp extract for treatment of epilepsy that a neurologist has determined is...