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Susan Pendergrass on Aug 17, 2022

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Part 8: Does Kansas City Have and Affordable Housing Problem?

(You can read part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part 6, and part 7 in this series here.) Our results in the previous blog post indicate that Kansas City may have […]

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Part 7: Does Kansas City Have an Affordable Housing Problem?

(You can read part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, and part 6 in this series here.) In the last post in this series, I talked about how to estimate potential […]

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Positions Open The Show-Me Institute is pleased to offer internship opportunities for Fall 2022. Internships are open to current undergraduate and graduate students, as well as recent graduates. Summer internships […]

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Part 6: Does Kansas City Have and Affordable Housing Problem?

(You can read part one, part two, part three, part four, and part five in this series here.) As earlier posts in this series have explained, defining an affordable housing problem is […]

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2020-2021 Data Now Available at MoSchoolRankings.org Missouri Has an Education Emergency Missouri schools are failing to teach the core subjects of reading and math and the most recent test scores […]

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Eureka Water Privatization Is a Very Good Thing

The Post-Dispatch had a very long story about the just-finalized sale of Eureka’s (an outer suburb of St. Louis) municipal water system to Missouri American Water. Missouri American paid Eureka […]

The Show-Me Curricula Project

In 2021, the Show-Me Institute began a new transparency project focused on whether schools in Missouri are teaching critical race theory (CRT) concepts in the classroom. Similar to the Show-Me Checkbook and Show-Me […]

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At Least Hazelwood’s Honest

Last week, the Show-Me Institute kicked off a repeat of its Show-Me Curricula Project from last year. The purpose of the project is to use Missouri’s Sunshine Law to find […]

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School Districts Should Follow Their Own Rules

I mentioned in my recent blog post about our curricula transparency project that a significant amount of the more than $800,000 price increase between this year and last year’s total […]

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Small but Mighty Huntsdale, Population 25

When I first started working on the municipal checkbook project this year, I thought that many of Missouri’s smallest cities might have trouble getting information back to us. After all, […]

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Inflation? Try an $800,000 Price Hike

As we reboot the Show-Me Curricula Project, it’s been interesting to compare the differences in responses between last year and this year. One difference this year is that we’ve received […]

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