Progress We Can All Support
The Show Me Progress blog had an excellent post yesterday about Arnold dentist Homer Tourkakis and his ongoing fight to...
Charter Schools Expand Opportunities
The Post-Dispatch regards charter schools cautiously: It would be a tragedy if, in offering opportunity to thousands of kids, a...
St. Louis May Get KIPP Schools!
"KIPP" stands for "Knowledge Is Power Program." Read all about it here in the Post-Dispatch. The article mentions KIPP’s great...
And You Thought Our Education System Had Problems…
It’s been a slow news weekend for Missouri, so I’ve decided to write about Somalia. That’s right; our public schools...
Too Bad This Is No Longer Current
I’ve been searching for more good blogs and other websites about public policy outside of St. Louis, and today I...
Forget Ballpark Village, This Is What St. Louis Really Needs
Today’s Post-Dispatch has a front-page article on Mayor Slay’s newly announced plan to seek a major expansion of the network...
A Step Forward
It’s hard to miss this morning’s front-page article in the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch about Mayor Slay’s new plan to expand...
Clayton Won’t Play By the Rules
Four St. Louis families with children attending Clayton schools (and who previously attended St. Louis schools) are filing a lawsuit...
Big School Vote in Kansas City! Will It Come to St. Louis Next?
Voters in the section of the Kansas City school district that lies in the suburbs of Independence and Sugar Creek...
Start Choice Early
I went to preschool for one year, when I was four. Religion is one of those topics that’s off-limits on...
“Smokey, this is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.”
There’s another article this morning on Missouri campaign contribution limits (I’ve blogged about this issue before). Apparently, the contribution limits...
Quibbles and Bits
In addition to David Stokes’ criticisms of the otherwise excellent West End Word piece about Rex Sinquefield and the Show-Me...
Corrections to West End Word Article on Rex and SMI
Tim Woodcock of the West End Word (link via Missouri Political News Service) wrote a very thorough and detailed article...
Innovative Charter Schools
I’ve discussed how more charter schools could help bring down the dropout rate in St. Louis. Now I see by...
Judicial Elections and Parkland Sales
The Arch City Chronicle links to two stories, one from Detroit and one from DC, on issues of interest to...
Boston Bread Co.?
Panera Bread has announced that it may relocate its corporate headquarters from St. Louis to Boston when its corporate leases...
The MSBA on Parental Choice
The MSBA is blogging away … telling us about the successes of public schools in Missouri, right? Well, not quite....
For Each Their Own in Cape Girardeau County
It seems that an attempt by local governments in Southeast Missouri to work together and share revenues from overlapping developments...
Eminent Domain Abuse Interview on KMOX
We hope you enjoyed the discussion of the Show-Me Institute’s just-released eminent domain study, which ended a short time ago...
Choices for Drop-Outs
In an op-ed last year, I speculated that the high minority drop-out rate in St. Louis was caused by a...
