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Entries Tagged as 'School Choice'

Americans For Prosperity Urges Voters to Send Message: “Put Dollars in the Class Room Not Court Room”€

January 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Former Speaker Pro Tem Carl Bearden, who is now a lobbyist for Travis Brown’s new firm Pelopidas and American for Prosperity- Missouri, sent out a press release yesterday promoting two AFP videos that criticize Missouri school districts that are suing the state for more money. A tipster alerted us to the videos […]

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Tags: School Choice · Carl Bearden

Show-Me Institute Releases Tuition Tax Credits Policy Study

January 14th, 2008 · No Comments

The Show-Me Institute will release a policy study today analyzing the fiscal effects of tuition tax credits in Missouri. SMI argues that tax credit programs have helped to reduce inequality of educational access in states where they have been adopted, and in many cases, they have also helped save taxpayer dollars by lowering the per-student […]

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Tags: School Choice · MO Legislature · Show Me Institute

K.C. School Superintendant Allegedly Calls Two Female Board Members “Bitches”

December 13th, 2007 · No Comments

By Joe Robertson
The Kansas City Star
The leaders of several black organizations want Kansas City Superintendent Anthony Amato placed on administrative leave pending investigation of a complaint that he called two school board members “bitches.”
And if the allegations by a former high-level staff member are true, they want Amato fired.
“He has forfeited the privilege to […]

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Tags: School Choice · Kansas City · Mayor Mark Funkhouser

American Federation of Teacher’s Criticize Show Me Institute Scholar

November 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

American Federation of Teacher’s Blog:
I just took a look through Mike Podgursky and Robert Costrell’s latest on pensions. Mike is a state based right wing think tanker/professor who has attacked the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards as a cartel, and Costrell is at the Walton school of Every Day Low Benefits or whatever […]

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Tags: School Choice · Show Me Institute

Big Money, Big Ideas

October 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment

By Tim Woodcock
Rex Sinquefield could have retired and opted for the quiet life. Instead he left his life in California, where he ran an investment company, and returned in 2005 to St. Louis, the city in which he grew up, and threw himself into the political arena and into philanthropy.
The dining room of his house […]

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Tags: School Choice · St. Louis · David Stokes · Show Me Institute

Quote of the Day

October 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Your School, Your Choice:
“So, Rex Sinquefield started a few PACs…big deal. It’s not illegal and it is definitely not the first time this has happened either. PACs are started all the time to support issues and back certain politicians, what’s the difference?”
The difference is it’s ok for a wealthy billionaire like George Soros to fund his socialist […]

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Tags: School Choice · Show Me Institute · Picture/Quote of the Day

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