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Podcast: Wayfair is Signed, More Sunshine and Nearly $2 Billion for Education

David Stokes, Elias Tsapelas, Patrick Ishamel and Susan Pendergrass join Zach Lawhorn to discuss the recently signed online sales tax bills, the Missouri Supreme Court ruling on the state’s sunshine […]

Setting the Record Straight About Missouri’s New ESA Program

Earlier this week, Susan Pendergrass wrote a blog post addressing some of the criticisms levied by The Kansas City Star editorial board about a bill that creates an Empowerment Scholarship […]

How Much Does Your Local Public School Spend?

It comes as a surprise to most people who don’t follow education policy closely that we have never really known how much an individual public school spends per student. Historically, […]

Repeating School Spending History

I saw a meme once that said “Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it while those who learn history are doomed to watch as other people […]

Let’s Look at Some Numbers

The Missouri Legislature is hard at work on the budget for the next fiscal year. One of the biggest components of the budget is K-12 public education. I think it’s […]

The Latest on Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts and HB 349

On Thursday, April 15, 2021, Dr. Susan Pendergrass joined The Gary Nolan Show to provide an update on House Bill 349. HB 349 would establish the Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts […]

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