The Missouri School Rankings Project

Susan Pendergrass on Oct 14, 2021

Economy

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Want Better Electricity Prices? Be More Like Illinois

One of the benefits of a cross-border rivalry is the ability to learn from your competitor (with Missouri sometimes learning the right lesson). Missouri could learn a thing or two […]

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Missouri’s New Gas Tax Hassle

If you’ve ever bought something that came with a mail-in rebate, the story of Missouri’s new gas tax refund should not sound too surprising. Missouri’s gas tax increased by 2.5 […]

MoSchoolRankings.org launch, Sam Page Requests More Money and Who Will Pay for Flowers?

Find your school at MoSchoolRankings.org Susan Pendergrass, David Stokes, and Corianna Baier join Zach Lawhorn to discuss the launch of The Missouri School Rankings Project and MoSchoolRankings.org, a report that […]

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Corporate Welfare

LIHTC Pilot Finds Permanence

Missouri’s low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) program is bad, but is it getting better? Earlier this year I wrote about a proposed pilot program that aimed to improve the program’s […]

A Property Tax Increase for Ladue?

The City of Ladue is asking voters to approve a property tax increase on November 2. It costs money to run cities, and that money comes from taxes. While governments […]

Critical Race Theory in Missouri Schools

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St. Louis County Needs Federal Dollars to Stay Afloat

A recent article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that St. Louis County Executive Sam Page is asking the St. Louis County Council to use federal stimulus money to avoid […]

If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Improve It

Some things are hard to face—the scale, your checking account balance—but ignoring them doesn’t make problems magically go away. The same can definitely said of education. Monitoring school performance and […]

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Corporate Welfare

Community Improvement Districts Aren’t

The community improvement district (CID) that funds several programs in downtown St. Louis is having trouble. Big trouble. As in it may-not-continue-to-exist-type trouble. Many people who live and work in […]

Policy Lunch: Missouri School Rankings Project (St. Louis)

Missouri schools are failing to teach the core subjects of reading and math, and the most recent test scores show that students are falling further behind. In response to the Missouri Department […]

State and Local Government

What Should We Do About Facebook?

Robby Soave joined The Mark Reardon Show on 97.1 FM Talk (KFTK-St. Louis) to discuss his new book, Tech Panic, cancel culture, his upcoming virtual event with Show-Me Institute, and […]

What’s Coming Is a Tragedy that Historians Will Only Wonder About

National Review Institute’s Douglas Murray joined The Tim Jones and Chris Arps Show on NewsTalkSTL to discuss the recent shift in American culture, his November 10 event in St. Louis, […]

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