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This week’s highlights: Top News - Enrollment decline lurks behind many conversations in education, fueling concern across the spectrum from early childhood through higher education Missouri Update - the Missouri House Budget Committee approved HB 2, allocating $8.2 billion for elementary and...
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Today, the Missouri State Board of Education approved a rule formalizing the Quality Assurance Report (QAR) program for early care and education. The QAR program is voluntary, helping early learning providers set benchmarks and improve program quality—not as a punitive measure but as a continuous...
This week’s highlights: Top News - As Kansas and Missouri work through their education budgets and consider changes to how they fund schools, special education funding is getting long-overdue attention — and the conversation couldn’t come at a more critical time. Missouri Update - The Department of...
As Kansas and Missouri work through their education budgets and consider changes to how they fund schools, special education funding is getting long-overdue attention — and the conversation couldn’t come at a more important time. In Kansas, special education funding is at a crossroads. The House...
This week’s highlights: Top News - Although the national test that measures academic achievement may have limitations, the data consistently shows that too many students are not proficient at reading, and progress remains slow. Missouri Update - House committee debates bill to ban Three-Cueing...
This week’s highlights: Top News - For the second year in a row, leaders in Kansas are pushing a plan to consolidate early childhood programs and services currently spread across multiple state departments. Missouri Update - Kids Win Missouri, with the support of Aligned, proposes the Missouri...
This week’s highlights: Top News - School choice remains a top priority for Governor Mike Kehoe’s administration, and this week, Missouri lawmakers made progress on one key component—open enrollment. Missouri Update - Bills related to educator tax deductions, hazing legislation, and open enrollment...