by Mike Lear | Jul 12, 2013 | Education, News
A House Committee charged with looking for ways to improve the state’s education system has met to decide what it will, and won’t, discuss. The Interim Committee on Education heard from Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro that much work must be done to...
by Mike Lear | Jun 11, 2012 | Education, Legislature, News, Politics / Govt
A bill that generated national attention in the final weeks of the 2012 legislative session was HB 2051, a proposal to bar discussion of sexual orientation in public schools except in scientific instruction on human reproduction. It was more commonly known as the...
by Mike Lear | Jun 8, 2012 | Education, Legislature, News, Politics / Govt
The likely next Speaker of the Missouri House wants to see a committee formed to work on education issues in the interim, after some key issues were left on the table in the 2012 session. Majority Floor Leader Tim Jones (R-Eureka) says compared to past years when...
