Four-Day School Week Votes and School Choice in Missouri
The four-day school week (4dsw) has become quite popular in the Show-Me State. More than 180 of our state’s 518...
Get the Popcorn: City of Independence Mulls Lawsuit Over Jackson County Property Taxes
Kansas City and Jackson County have been feuding over the county’s hiked property taxes, and now it looks like there...
Independence Could Benefit from Privatizing Utilities
A version of this commentary appeared in the Examiner of Jackson County. Independence is one of the few cities in...
Teacher Collective Bargaining Agreements in Missouri’s Public Schools
In 2011, the Missouri Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of American Federation of Teachers v. Ledbetter. The...
Revisionist TIF History From Columbia’s City Manager
The Columbia Missourian has published an overview of the statewide use of Tax Increment Financing (TIF), a development subsidy that...
Independence Privatizes Its Bus Services
I saw this excellent story on Tony’s Kansas City. Independence, Mo., is privatizing bus and transit services within the city. The Independence...
Making a Good System Better: Suggestions for Kansas City Government
All politics, as they say, is local. But the politics in some places (think St. Louis and St. Louis County)...
Birth Center Regulations
This article in the Post-Dispatch identifies a regulatory barrier to opening birth centers in Missouri: Another challenge in Missouri is...
Sinking Ship
The Kansas City School District is attempting to prevent (through the court system) a November 6 ballot initiative which would...
School Choice: A Truly Intelligent Design
Here we go again. In a bitter 6-4 vote, before a standing-room-only crowd, the Kansas Board of Education adopted...
