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An In-depth Look at Missouri’s Rural High Schools

In this report, Susan Pendergrass presents a detailed look at Missouri’s rural high schools, with information about student demographics along with key indicators like student/teacher ratios, teacher experience, and per-student […]

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2022 Missouri Blueprint

The Show-Me Institute’s mission is to advance liberty with individual responsibility by promoting market solutions for Missouri public policy. Our vision is for Missouri to be a place where entrepreneurs […]

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The Missouri School Rankings Project

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 […]

How Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESAs) Work

Download Infographic Here How ESAs would be funded ESAs are not paid for through the state budget – Under the proposed ESA legislation, individuals and businesses would make a donation […]

New Poll Shows Missouri’s Educational System in Crisis

Download the infographic here Additional Findings Missouri students are being left behind academically. A poll released today by the Show-Me Institute reveals that nearly 40 percent of Missouri parents believe […]

SMI Podcast: Charter Schools ARE Public Schools – Ron Rice

Dr. Susan Pendergrass is joined by Ron Rice,Senior Director at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, to discuss the state of school choice in 2020, the impact the COVID […]

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