STL Q Down the Loo
One of my family’s favorite Kansas City events is the Ethnic Enrichment Festival. Representatives of so many different cultures and...
Honey, I Shrunk the City
It’s not exactly news that the City of St. Louis and the region as a whole have been losing population...
We’re Not in Last Place—We’re Not Even in the Race
The release of the 2020 Census Bureau numbers brought bad news: The St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) has dropped...
Highest and Lowest Spending Schools in the St. Louis Area
When Congress updated No Child Left Behind (NCLB) with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015, many hailed the...
Will Building the Convention Hotel Create Jobs?
Proponents of a new $311 million hotel claim that the project will create construction jobs. At a recent hearing...
Riverfront Stadium Unlikely to Increase Construction Jobs in Saint Louis
This week, members of the Saint Louis City Board of Alderman announced that they support a public vote on the...
Charity Clinic Coming to St. Louis Area Next Month
Over the past few years we have talked a lot about the Volunteer Health Services Act (VHSA), which allows out-of-state medical professionals...
Maintaining the Education Status Quo
Today it was announced that many St. Louis area school districts have agreed to accept a lower tuition rate for...
The Wonderful Evergreen Clause
Imagine you had a contract with your employer that could never be altered unless both you and your employer agreed...
Arnold Wastewater Privatization: Don’t Waste the Opportunity
There’s “gold in them thar hills,” to quote a popular expression, which dates back to Mark Twain and the California...
Want Better Teachers In High-Need Schools? Fix Pensions
What if instead of busing students from failing school districts to accredited ones, we bused great teachers from accredited schools...
Current Teacher Pension Systems Impose A “Tariff” On Labor
As first appearing in TeacherPensions.org on 25 Feb, 2014, and Education Next on 26 Feb, 2014: In Missouri, students in...
A Lower, Consistent Tuition For School Transfers Is Possible Without The Legislature
Many have lamented that the inter-district transfer law, which allows students to transfer from unaccredited public school districts to nearby...
Missouri School Leaders Wrong On School Choice
In a carefully coordinated effort, Missouri school leaders have hatched a new plan to rehash old ideas. First, the Cooperating...
Should School Choice Programs Require State Testing?
Jay Greene has an interesting piece on his blog about school choice and accountability testing. He writes: There is a...
Benefits of China Hub Focused on Saint Louis; All Missouri Taxpayers Forced to Pick Up $480 Million Tab
Tax credit programs like the proposed China hub are a form of wealth redistribution: Only the favored few benefit, and...
Privatization Moves Forward in the St. Louis Area
Here are two examples of government privatization moving forward in the St. Louis area: First, Festus is selling its municipal...
Missouri Suffers From the Saint Louis and Kansas City Earnings Taxes
The Saint Louis and Kansas City earnings taxes, 1-percent income taxes imposed on those living or working within city limits,...
Choice, Illustrated and Rejected
I spotted an interesting article today in the Post-Dispatch discussing frustrations that many parents are having with a school in...
Quick Hits After a Journey
After nine hours in a rented Pontiac G6 (that handled remarkably well in sleet, by the way) the second leg...
