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Update – June 2024
This month’s highlights: Top News – Annie E. Casey Foundation released its 35th edition of its KIDS COUNT Data Book. See where Missouri and Kansas stand. Missouri Update – Aligned joined child advocates from around the state filled the Millbotton Event Center in Jefferson City this…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News – Despite the political theatrics that characterized much of this year’s session in Jefferson City, our team at Aligned concluded that this was indeed our organization’s best year yet. Missouri Update – Work stalled in the Senate…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News: Earlier today, the Missouri House gave the final approval to the state’s operating budget for FY25, and earlier this week, Missouri Governor Mike Parson signed SB 727 into law. Together, these actions will result in the biggest boost to education funding…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News: In St. Charles County, the median household pre-tax income stands at $99,596. However, with an average tax rate of 26.8%, the net pay is reduced to around $72,503. This means that a typical family with two working parents can expect to spend…
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Weekly Legislative Update
This week’s highlights: Top News: A report published by the 74 examines the ongoing challenges in education, particularly the complex relationship between school spending, equity, and student outcomes. Missouri Update: The House sent IP reform back to the Senate, and the…
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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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