Highly Recommended School Reform Piece in the Kansas City Star

Education | August 17, 2010

By David Stokes | Read Time 1 min

I enthusiastically encourage you to read this op-ed in the Kansas City Star about school reform options and challenges in Missouri. It is written by our friend, Earl Simms, of the Children’s Education Council of Missouri. The op-ed focuses on the hotly contested issue of allowing and/or requiring children in unaccredited school districts to enroll in and attend public schools in neighboring, accredited districts. Enjoy and discuss, and thanks to Combest for the link.

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David Stokes

David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from 2007 to 2016. From 2016 through 2020 he was Executive Director of Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, where he led efforts to oppose harmful floodplain developments done with abusive tax subsidies. Stokes rejoined the Institute in early 2021 as the Director of Municipal Policy. He is a past president of the University City Library Board. He served on the St. Louis County 2010 Council Redistricting Commission and was the 2012 representative to the Electoral College from Missouri’s First Congressional District. He lives in University City with his wife and their three children.

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