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Update – November 2024
This month’s highlights: Top News – The implications of dismantling the Department of Education. Missouri Update – DESE releases school performance scores, which show some gains. Kansas Update – Blue Ribbon Task Force on screen time recommends a bell-to-bell cellphone ban. Additional Highlights – Aligned traveled…
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Update – October 2024
This month’s highlights: Top News—With millions of dollars flowing into the Show-Me State to fight over ballot initiatives related to gaming, we provide a deeper dive into where the proceeds go in Missouri and Kansas. Missouri Update – DESE is still playing catch-up on…
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Update – August 2024
This month’s highlights: Top News – The number of college closures has surged dramatically, with at least 30 institutions shutting down in 2023 and a rate of one per week in 2024, starkly higher than the previous highest annual closure rate…
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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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