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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 – 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 – 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…
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