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...
by Mike Lear | Apr 11, 2013 | Education, News
The House has strongly rejected a teacher evaluation bill that was a priority for the Majority Republican leadership. Representative Kevin Elmer (R-Nixa) sponsored the proposal that would have created a teacher evaluation system. “To say that the system is OK is...
