SLPS and MoSchoolRankings
With ongoing reports about St. Louis Public Schools’s (SLPS) finances, I was interested to learn that SLPS had created nine...
The Four-Day School Week Won’t Quit
This past legislative session, Missouri officials addressed the four-day school week (4dsw) as part of the large education reform package,...
Local Kansas City Area School District Sues Jackson County Health Department – for Good Reason?
Big government is once again picking winners and losers. This time it is in the form of enforcement of county-issued...
The Great Urban School District That Wasn’t, but May Be Soon
What if I told you that you could have access to nearly unlimited resources, the counsel of top experts, and...
Should Saint Louis Raise Property Taxes for Public Schools?
What do you call nearly $15,000 per pupil? If you’re the Saint Louis Public School System, you call it “not...
It’s Not The Money
The New York Times published an op-ed titled “What’s the Matter With Kansas’ Schools?” about legislative efforts to cut funding levels...
Teacher Tenure Reform: Not Just About Bad Teachers
The discussion about teacher tenure reform often focuses on the negative aspects, such as getting rid of bad teachers. What...
It Is Time To Increase Public School Transparency
In the past three years, the Missouri State Auditor has chastised public school districts for irresponsible spending, excessive pay for...
Successfully Competing For Students
In 2000, 48 percent of parents in the Maplewood-Richmond Heights School District chose to opt out of that public school...
Missouri: Where the Women Are Strong, the Men Are Good Looking, And Every Teacher is Above Average?
Last week, Ben Barnes, a Show-Me Institute intern, wrote about the teacher tenure reform bill that Missouri legislators are considering....
Lunch Money
Diner’s Journal writes that the proposed increase in federal spending on school lunches disappointed many advocates, who had hoped for...
A Laptop on Every Desk
Rural Missouri has an article about the Knob Noster School District and its use of computers in the classroom. Here...
If at First You Don’t Succeed …
When school districts need more money, they ask their voters, right? Well, that’s the idea. But, in some instances, it...
From Frugal to Flush: The Benefit Boost
This morning, I randomly selected a stack of superintendent contracts from Audrey’s files, in addition to a sampling she had...
Remarriage?
Partisanship has long been divorced from most school elections in the United States. In fact, all school board elections in...
How Do They Do It?
When it comes to K–12 issues, we tend to neglect small school districts. For journalists and researchers, it’s just easier...
Great Ideas Abound for Kansas City’s School District
The Kansas City School District is (once again) stumbling down the path (recently blazed by the Saint Louis School District)...
