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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News: The Missouri House passed a massive education bill that doubles state investment in early childhood education and provides more flexibility and incentives to address teacher recruitment and retention challenges. This bill aligns with Aligned’s top…
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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 – Incumbent and union-endorsed school board candidates largely prevailed as voters cast ballots in local elections across Missouri this week. Missouri Update – Astronomical event to eclipse legislative work in House on Monday. Kansas Update – Senate rejects…
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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 : 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…