Around the nation, students are struggling to read, and Missouri students are no different. In 2022, the National Assessment of […]
Make no mistake—enrollment in public education in Missouri is shrinking. Last year, we had about 863,000 students, down three percent […]
The Jefferson County Public Water Supply District (JCPWS) has offered to purchase the shared municipal sewer system of Crystal City […]
The Federal Reserve announced last week that it was pausing its campaign of inflation-fighting interest rate hikes, leaving the target […]
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Trish Flanagan. Trish is the executive director of Building Futures: Design and Build Workshop in St. […]
Show-Me Testifies Before Civil Rights Commission on Curriculum Transparency and CRT
Last week I testified before the Missouri Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights on the topic […]
Missouri’s Medicaid program is out of control, and state lawmakers don’t seem to care. Enrollment in the state’s program keeps […]
Aaron Hedlund, David Stokes and Elias Tsapelas join Zach Lawhorn to discuss the most recent report on inflation in the […]
Missouri’s Teachers Union Makes School Choice Stance?
Recently, a Hazelwood preschool teacher had her teacher’s license suspended due to her abrupt resignation, (on September 2nd a month […]
Missouri’s two flagship cities—St. Louis and Kansas City—face myriad challenges, such as declining population in St. Louis and high rates […]
A version of this commentary appeared in the Columbia Missourian. How would your family feel if your entire neighborhood had 5G […]
To Reduce Superintendent Turnover, Change the Pension System
A version of this commentary appeared in the Springfield News-Leader. If I offered you $100,000 a year for the rest of […]
A version of this commentary appeared in the Examiner of Jackson County. Independence is one of the few cities in […]
A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Louis Business Journal. Opportunity cost. The concept is so simple that a […]
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Matthew Ladner about the success of charter schools in Arizona, the growth of the open enrollment […]
After a whirlwind period of tense negotiations, the House of Representatives and White House agreed this week on raising the […]
The Bi-State Development Agency, commonly known now as Metro, is once again proposing to expand the MetroLink light rail system […]
Frequent Show-Me Institute readers are likely familiar with our analysts’ concerns about violent crime in St. Louis, but many of […]
The St. Louis County library system has announced it is making social workers available at several libraries as a standard […]
