Show-Me Institute

Expert Panel on Education Choice in Missouri
2021-01-29 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago)
K-12 education in America looks radically different than it did a year ago—and many families didn’t get a say. Join us on Friday, January 29 at 11:00 AM for a virtual event featuring a panel of experts on Missouri education.

These presentations are designed to help policymakers better understand the school choice movement and make informed decisions about education at the state level.

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PROGRAM AGENDA
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Dr. Susan Pendergrass
Director of Research and Education Policy at the Show-Me Institute
The ABCs of school choice: What types of programs exist, how do they work and which states have them?
Dr. Michael Q. McShane
Director of National Research at EdChoice
School choice programs: How are they administered and held accountable?
Jason Bedrick
Director of Policy at EdChoice
What, if any, Constitutional concerns should be considered?
Rachelle Engen
Educational Choice Fellow at Institute for Justice
How could school choice programs be tailored for Missouri and what would it mean for existing school funding?
Dr. James Shuls
Associate Professor at the University of Missouri – St. Louis
Question & Answer Session
Moderated by Dr. Susan Pendergrass
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Questions may be submitted prior to the event by emailing them to Zach.Lawhorn@ShowMeOpportunity.org and during the event via the Q&A feature on your Zoom screen.

Virtual Town Hall: A Blueprint for Missouri
2020-12-08 11:00 - 12:00
Join us on Tuesday, December 8 at 11:00 AM as Show-Me Institute researchers unveil the 2021 Blueprint for Missouri during a live virtual town hall.

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October 22: Virtual Town Hall with Grover Norquist - Tax Reform and America's National Debt Crisis
2020-10-22 11:00 - 12:00
Join us on Thursday, October 22 for a special town hall with Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist. Mr. Norquist will discuss tax reform and the looming national debt crisis in America before taking questions submitted by the audience.
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Questions can be submitted prior to the event by emailing them to Zach.Lawhorn@ShowMeOpportunity.org

Speaker Bio:
Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a taxpayer advocacy group he founded in 1985 at President Reagan’s request. ATR works to limit the size and cost of government and opposes higher taxes at the federal, state, and local levels and supports tax reform that moves towards taxing consumed income one time at one rate.

Join Us for a Book Talk with Kevin D. Williamson
2020-09-24 11:00 - 12:00
Join us on Thursday, September 24 at 11:00 AM for a special virtual presentation by National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson.
Kevin will be discussing his forthcoming book, “Big White Ghetto,” a collection of long-form reporting and essays on poverty, addiction, despair, and their influence on American culture and American politics.

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Kevin D. Williamson is National Review’s roving correspondent and director of the National Review Institute’s William F. Buckley Jr Fellowship Program in Political Journalism.
He is the author of The End Is Near and It’s Going To Be Awesome: How Going Broke Will Leave America Richer, Happier, and More Secure, The Dependency Agenda, and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism. He contributed chapters to The New Leviathan: The State Vs. the Individual in the 21st Century and Future Tense: Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval. When he is not sounding the alarm about Fiscal Armageddon, he is the theater critic at The New Criterion.

This event is sponsored by the Show-Me Institute and National Review Institute

Virtual Town Hall: The National Debt Crisis
2020-09-10 11:00 - 12:00
Join us on Thursday, September 10 for a discussion with Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl about the looming national debt crisis in America, fiscal responsibility and economic growth.
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Speaker Bio: Brian Riedl is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, focusing on budget, tax, and economic policy. Previously, he worked for six years as chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) and as staff director of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth. He also served as a director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign and was the lead architect of the ten-year deficit-reduction plan for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. During 2001–11, Riedl served as the Heritage Foundation’s lead research fellow on federal budget and spending policy. In that position, he helped lay the groundwork for Congress to cap soaring federal spending, rein in farm subsidies, and ban pork-barrel earmarks. Riedl’s writing and research have been featured in, among others, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and National Review; he is a frequent guest on NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, and C-SPAN.
