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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights… Top News : The Missouri Senate tackled a school choice priority this week after hours of lengthy debates and behind-the-scenes negotiations. Missouri Update: Senator Mary Elizabeth Coleman urged House committee members to reinstate “ballot candy” provisions in her initiative…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights… Top News – This week, members of the Missouri State Board of Education received an update on the Read, Lead, Exceed Program, which is the state’s literacy initiative, including a preliminary review of K-3 foundational reading assessment data and a report…
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Operation Breakthrough’s Transformative Pre-K Program
What does an undrivable car have to do with education? Everything, if it keeps a family from taking their child to preschool. Administrators at Kansas City’s Operation Breakthrough, a nonprofit that provides education, health, and parenting services to low-income families,…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News: HB 2184, school accountability measures, passes out of committee by a vote of 13-2. Missouri Update: This Senate resumes somewhat normal operations. Kansas Update: Gearing up for the second half of session. Additional Highlights: Cracking the complex formula code.…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – States like Missouri and Kansas have proposals that could provide tax incentives and regulatory relief for childcare providers to help buoy the broken business model that forces some providers to shutter their doors. Missouri Update – The Missouri Senate underwent…
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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 – This week, the House Committee on Elementary & Secondary Education heard HB 2184 (Haffner), a bill that would modify school accountability metrics for Missouri’s public and public charter schools. Missouri Update – This week marked a solemn moment as the state…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – Representative Brenda Shields, a longtime champion of early education and former business leader, led a coalition of nearly a dozen respected statewide organizations to present HB 1486, which would remove the cap on Pre-K funding for 4-year-olds…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – Dysfunction reigned supreme as members of the newly formed Freedom Caucus clashed with Senate leaders over the Republican caucus’s priority of initiative petition reform. The Senate floor witnessed fiery exchanges, a historic motion, and a filibuster that…
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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…