What’s So Great about Performance Districts?
The state of Missouri provides almost half of the funding for public education (the rest comes from the federal government...
The Scholarship That Wasn’t
In addition to the nearly $3 billion in federal relief funding that Missouri received to try to right the public...
Missouri Nearly Fails Cato’s Test
Missouri’s government spending is out of control, and a new report from the Cato Institute, a free-market think in Washington,...
Choice and Competition Lead to Better Outcomes
The Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) recently released a report confirming what free-market advocates like Milton Friedman and many of us...
10 Ideas to Get Missouri’s Budget Back on Track
On October 22, the Show-Me Institute released the following recommendations for bringing Missouri government spending under control. Download the...
Shocker! Local Leader Demands More Money to Address Issue
I attended a screening of the KCPBS documentary “A Tale of Three Cities” on Tuesday hosted by the Kansas City...
Missouri is Spending Less on Instruction
When considering the costs of running a school, we may think of items like teacher salaries, classroom technology, textbooks, and...
SLPS and MoSchoolRankings
With ongoing reports about St. Louis Public Schools’s (SLPS) finances, I was interested to learn that SLPS had created nine...
One Way Missouri Could Keep Its Energy Grid Reliable
In my previous post, I discussed how the shuttering of coal energy in Missouri could create problems with energy prices...
Ameren to Shut Down Rush Island
The coal-powered Rush Island Energy Center in Jefferson County will be shut down on October 15. The 1,178-megawatt energy center...
Court Fee Increase Would Negatively Impact St. Louis County
A version of the following commentary appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Among the many things that Missourians will vote on...
Should Missouri Consider a 3rd-Grade Retention Policy?
Do you think students should get promoted to the next grade if they do not understand grade-level material? There are...
Missouri Ballot Issues and the Return of Three Mile Island
David Stokes, Elias Tsapelas, and Avery Frank join Zach Lawhorn to discuss: Missouri’s Amendment 6, the Kirkwood sales tax vote,...
Federalism and The Founders’ Vision with Charles C. W. Cooke
See Charles C.W. Cooke live on October 9 in St. Charles, MO Tickets and Details Here Susan Pendergrass speaks with...
It Has Been a Great Week for Economic Development Agencies in Missouri
This has been a fun week for those of us who feel that economic development agencies in Missouri are the...
The Four-Day School Week Continues to Grow in Missouri
The four-day school week (4dsw) continues to expand rapidly in Missouri. The 4dsw grew from 34 districts in 2018–2019, or...
Columbia Should Privatize Its Water and Electric Utilities
A version of this commentary appeared in the Columbia Missourian. Columbia is currently considering raising its municipal water rates. The proposed...
Outsourcing Is Good
In government outsourcing, governments contract with private-sector firms to have them perform certain services. Outsourcing is not as big of...
Rising Concerns about St. Louis’s Teacher Pension Fund
KSDK recently ran a report on a topic familiar to Show-Me Institute readers: teacher pensions. The report, titled “Growing pension...
A Report Card on DESE’s Report Card
A new report from the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has evaluated each state’s report card system for public...
