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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – A generation questions the value of college. Missouri Update – House experiments with a short and sweet week. Kansas Update – Legislature works well past midnight to pass bills before Spring Break adjournment. Additional Highlights – Grandmother of Aligned board…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – American social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt took the media by storm with the publication of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. Aligned takes a closer look at…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – The Kansas State Department of Education has embarked on a new initiative to revolutionize teacher recruitment and retention through a Registered Teacher Apprenticeship program for the Fall 2024. Missouri Update – The Missouri General Assembly was…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – Forbes writer argues, “There is no teacher shortage. There’s a teacher recruitment and retention problem. There’s a ‘making the job attractive enough to draw in the people we want’ problem.” Missouri Update – The Missouri General Assembly cut its…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – Kansas Governor Laura Kelly unveiled plans to generate 458 additional childcare slots through an investment of nearly $28 million in Capital Projects Fund Accelerator (CPF Accelerator) awards across seven communities in the state. Missouri Update – Week 6 is in the books and…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – The House Workforce and Infrastructure Committee heard HB 1488 this week. This bill creates three tax credit programs totaling $60 million that childcare providers and employers can use to incentivize contributions and offset the cost of care. This legislation was…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – The Missouri House posted a notification announcing the formation of a new committee—the House Special Committee on Education Reform. Missouri Update – We have prioritized early childhood education funding and regulatory relief, teacher recruitment and retention, and…