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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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 […]

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By Justin P. Hauke and Dave Roland When the Missouri General Assembly reconvenes in January, true education reform should be at the top of its agenda. Missourians, parents, and teachers alike have suffered from continual public school decline as the Legislature has pumped more and more money into districts. Yet increased educational spending has not […]

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“The Show-Me Institute is a vital voice for quality education in Missouri, and a welcome addition to the efforts in Saint Louis to create quality public schools for all students, regardless of income.” Francis Slay – Saint Louis Mayor The report details SMI’s 2006 accomplishments and finances, profiles their research areas, board of directors, staff, and scholars, […]

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No Child Left Behind Act and Missouri Education Funding Formula Discussed Dr. Marge Williams says “public education is under attack” in a new interview with Mike Ferguson. She feels the current assessment system set up under the No Child Left Behind Act is unfair and does not give government and parents an accurate look at […]

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From Show Me Progress: (not affiliated with the (Show-Me-Institute) “The motto of school voucher advocates in Missouri must be, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again, because big money donors to state legislators who favor vouchers have already given more campaign contributions–fourteen months before the elections!–than they did in 2004 and 2006. Which […]

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By Maurice Harris In late June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school assignments based on race are unconstitutional. The ruling has sparked a firestorm among people who believe that this change in precedent could create de facto segregation in public schools. There’s a much better way to solve the problem of institutional racism in […]

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By Kathleen Navin As part of a growing trend seen across the United States, several school districts in Missouri continue to perform poorly, failing to prepare students for higher education. Following the Saint Louis Public Schools’ recent loss of accreditation, Missourians want to see change and improvement more than ever. Concern for Missouri’s public school […]

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Following on the school reform theme. This interview of K.C. Superintendent Anthony Amato is hilarious. The Pitch totally makes a fool out of him! These school superintendents are like bad NFL head coaches, no matter how bad their records, they still get recycled and eventually end up with new head coaching jobs. By Eric Barton […]

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