Voluntary Open Enrollment Means No Open Enrollment
They say the best defense is offense. Perhaps the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has gotten that...
Missouri Public Education in Four Graphs
I had a professor in college who was very good at getting his points across by waving his hands in...
Wait, the Columbia Public School District Said What about Teaching the 1619 Project?
The 1619 Project will be taught in the Columbia Public School District (CPS) and the instruction is supported by a...
Tides Turning Against TIF?
Public support is growing for efforts to protect local funding from bad tax-increment financing (TIF) deals, but will the elected...
A Win for Parents
Change can be hard. After many years of trying, in 2018 Missouri students finally got the legal right to access...
A is for Absent
Being financially responsible—keeping a close eye on your bank balance and even your credit score, for example—isn’t always pleasant. Being...
So That’s What You Spent Your Money On
A few weeks ago I asked the question, “school administrators, what did you spend your money on?” The purpose of...
What to Make of the Kansas City School Board Elections
The results are (finally) in. After over a week of vote counting—all of the candidates were write-ins because no candidate...
This Is What Democracy Looks Like?
A never-ending talking point of school choice foes is that public schools are “democratically controlled” and charter schools or private...
Second All-Girls Charter School to Open
This school year, Hawthorn Leadership Academy opened its doors as the first all-girls public charter school in Missouri. Now, the...
Audit the Kansas City Public Schools
We actually went back about eight years and found that there was over $25 million paid in stipends either unapproved,...
The Future of Education in Kansas City
On Monday, I’ll be participating in a panel discussion on the Future of Education in Kansas City. This event is...
Kansas City Public Schools Embraces Charter Education
On Wednesday, the Kansas City Public Schools (KCPS) Board of Education voted to submit an application to the Department of Elementary...
When It Comes To Privatization In Education, We Say Opaa!
My colleague David Stokes has a terrific paper about the privatization of public services in which he highlights many examples of...
I Feel Like I’m Taking Crazy Pills
On May 16, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board invoked the historic Brown vs. the Board of Education case in a...
Kansas City School’s Untested Tech Program
The Kansas City School Board recently unveiled a new program in which they’ll give each student a tablet computer. Andrea...
Should Teachers Get Grades, Too?
Tennessee has recently taken an important step toward ensuring that its public schools provide a quality education by setting up...
Supersize Compensation
KMOV, a news station in Saint Louis, has begun airing a multi-part series on school administrator pay. Reporter Craig Cheatham...
Snapshots Vs. Trends in School Testing
Saint Louis’s Paideia Academy, a charter school, is set to close its doors following a recent defeat in a court...
Columbia Board of Education Candidates Discuss Cafeteria Food
The Columbia Daily Tribune asks school board candidates which improvements they would like to see in school lunches. One candidate...
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