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...
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...
by Mike Lear | May 3, 2012 | Education, Legislature, News, Politics / Govt
The House has given initial approval to a very stripped down bill dealing with teacher layoffs. Language dealing with teacher tenure was stripped out of the proposal. What remains is a change to what is often called “last in, first out.” The proposed new...
