When Do Summer Breaks Start for School Districts Across Missouri?
Many families may be beginning to wonder if their children’s school gets out earlier or later than everyone else’s. With...
Riverview Gardens and Normandy Are Regaining Local Control
After a decade of state control, the Missouri Board of Education recently announced it will restore local control to two...
Open-Source Alternatives May Disrupt Billion-Dollar Textbook Industry
Affton School District in St. Louis will take part in the U.S. Department of Education’s #GoOpen campaign, a new federal...
If charter schools are ruining education in Missouri, more please!
The Kansas City and St. Louis school districts saw two of the largest gains in the country in their graduation...
Are Charter Schools the School Transfer Fix?
When Stella Erondu moved to America from Nigeria in 1977, she was surprised to find the streets were not in...
Show-Me Now! School Choice: Back to Francis Howell
James Shuls, Ph.D., talks about the Goodloe family’s decision to leave the Normandy School District and return to Francis Howell...
That’s Why We Need More School Choice
Lorrine and Naomi Goodloe. Photo by Robert Cohen, [email protected] As someone who studies the issue of education policy quite closely,...
The Faux Moral High Ground
Bre Payton of Watchdog.org has a great piece today about the Normandy/Francis Howell transfer situation. She tells the story of...
Charity Is Not Your Strong Suit, Francis Howell
On Wednesday, Elisa Crouch and Jessica Bock of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Francis Howell will allow transfer students...
Normandy Transfers: Taking It to the Courts
Earlier this week, I sat down with attorney Joshua Schindler. Schindler represents several Normandy students who would like to transfer...
Normandy Transfer: An Evolving Story
After Friday’s decision by Judge Michael Burton that Francis Howell, Ritenour, and Pattonville School Districts would have to accept Normandy...
The Transfer Law: Another Disappointment
Cameral Cotton’s children were deeply saddened when they learned they would not return to Francis Howell School District. Cameral’s three...
What’s in a name?
That which we call an unaccredited school by any other name would perform as well. William Shakespeare spoke of roses,...
The Francis Howell Transfer Decision: One Family’s Disappointment
“It’s a slap in the face.” That was parent Cameral Cotton’s response to the Francis Howell School District’s decision to...
What Do Bus Rides Tell Us About School Choice?
Last Tuesday, the Joint Committee on Education hosted a marathon hearing exclusively on the inter-district school transfer law. Over the...
School Transfers, Follow The Money (Part 2)
Right now, there are so many unknowns when it comes to the issue of student transfers from unaccredited school districts....
School Transfers, Follow The Money
Following the advice of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), the Riverview Gardens and Normandy school districts...
Special Education Controversy
Some parents in the Francis Howell School District recently filed complaints about the use of padded seclusion rooms in schools....
Columbia School District Should Abandon Frivolous Lawsuit
To date, Columbia Public Schools has spent roughly $82,000 on the “adequacy” lawsuit, despite the fact it is a no-win...
