by Mike Lear | May 13, 2014 | Education, News
A House and Senate conference committee has finished its work hammering out a proposed fix to the student transfer law that threatens to bankrupt some Missouri schools. The proposal would let students in failing schools in unaccredited districts first transfer to...
by Mike Lear | May 8, 2014 | Legislature, News
The state House and Senate have approved a $26.3-billion operating budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The proposal goes to Governor Jay Nixon (D) for his consideration the day before the legislature’s deadline. Legislators based their spending...
by Mike Lear | May 6, 2014 | Health / Medicine, News
The state legislature appears to be moving forward with Governor Jay Nixon’s (D) plan to fund the rebuilding of Fulton State Hospital. The House-Senate budget conference committee Tuesday morning adopted language for the final legislative budget proposal to pay...
by Mike Lear | May 5, 2014 | Legislature, News
Selected representatives and senators will meet in conference this week to work out differences between the two chambers’ budget proposals. House Budget Committee Chairman Rick Stream (R-Kirkwood) says he doesn’t expect any major hangups between the two...
by Mike Lear | May 1, 2014 | Education, Legislature, 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....