ST. LOUIS, March 5, 2008 — A new video news release prepared by the Children’s Education Council of Missouri underscores the significance of placing children with special education needs in the appropriate learning environment to provide them with the best opportunity for success. Titled “The Need for Special Needs [...]

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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 on YouTube two [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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