By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri education reformers are optimistic heading into a new legislative session with a Republican supermajority firmly in control.
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Missouri school board is somehow convinced that unions “advocate” for schools
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. – The teachers union in the Francis Howell school district certainly has the school board fooled.
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Missouri officials raise standards for future teachers and their training programs
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The ongoing debate over how to improve the nation’s public schools has produced at least one point of agreement among reformers and education establishment leaders: We need better-trained and more-talented teachers in the classroom.
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Judge rules that St. Louis students must stay in failing schools
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
ST. LOUIS – In a doozy of a legal ruling, a St. Louis County Circuit Court judge ruled that a Missouri law that (theoretically) allowed students to leave an unaccredited school district for a better one – and take their state tax dollars with them – was “unconstitutional and unenforceable,” reports StLToday.com.
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