by Mike Lear | Dec 11, 2012 | Education, News
A state legislative panel has gotten its first look at a proposal for a funding formula for the state’s colleges and universities. Under the plan laid out for the Joint Committee on Education, the state would provide 35 percent of an institution’s...
by Mike Lear | Dec 10, 2012 | News, Politics / Govt
State house Republicans are working on their version of ethics legislation. House Speaker Tim Jones (R-Eureka) has been talking about ethics legislation since August. He favors a bill that passed out of the 2010 legislative session, the language of which was thrown...
by Mike Lear | Dec 7, 2012 | Education, News
The Missouri General Assembly will again consider legislation to require the state’s schools to add discrimination to their bullying policies. A disagreement remains over one detail: whether to require policies to be enumerated, or to list factors for...
by Mike Lear | Dec 5, 2012 | News
Republican leaders in the House and Senate have alternately said they oppose Governor Jay Nixon’s intention to support Medicaid expansion and say it is unlikely to pass the legislature. Two key Republicans in the budget making process, though, say they want to...
by Mike Lear | Dec 4, 2012 | News
A joint House-Senate committee that will look at how agencies at all levels in the state handle cases of child abuse and neglect has held its first hearing. The body has decided to split into several subcommittees that will each study a set of issues related to such...
