HB 1044 and Expanding Charter Schools in Missouri
Senate Bill (SB) 727, passed into law last year, allows any state-approved sponsor to authorize a charter school in Boone...
Hanging Up on Smartphones in Missouri Public Schools
Smartphone use has become a national debate. As technology has advanced, cell phones have changed from devices for simple communication...
Riverview Gardens and Normandy Are Regaining Local Control
After a decade of state control, the Missouri Board of Education recently announced it will restore local control to two...
Open Enrollment in St. Louis Schools: 55 Years in the Making
A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. When the Spainhower Commission issued its final report in 1968,...
Expanding the VIP List for Charter School Eligibility
In Missouri, only a select few are eligible for the VIP status of charter school eligibility. The “bouncer” until recently...
This Is What Number Four Looks Like?
By now, we have all seen that wonderful photo of the young child sitting in the backseat of her parents’...
A Charter School for Normandy?
The Normandy School District might be getting its first charter school. That is, unless a coterie of local functionaries scupper...
The City-County Line Remains a Barrier to a Good Education
KSDK has a great interview with Chester Asher, CEO of Northside Community School, a charter school in St. Louis. Northside...
Like a Sore Thumb: Missouri’s Testing Standards Buck National Trend
Marching to the beat of your own drummer is all good and well as long as you know where you’re...
Did Easier Tests Cost Normandy Students the Right to Transfer?
On December 1, 2017, the Missouri State Board of Education went into a closed session and ousted Commissioner Margie Vandeven....
“Chokepoints” Demonstrate Need for New Charter Schools
I grew up in a small town where several elementary and middle schools funneled into a single high school. While...
Riverview Gardens Students Lose the Right to Transfer
After nearly a decade of failing to achieve state accreditation, Riverview Gardens School District achieved provisionally accredited status, which will...
Universal Pre-K May Destroy the Preschool Marketplace
In the 1950s, economist Milton Friedman proposed the use of educational vouchers in public education. Under a voucher program, parents...
Normandy Students-Still Trapped
The Post-Dispatch published a heart-wrenching story yesterday about a family trapped in the Normandy school district. The Harpers have two...
Can Normandy Be Saved?
They say those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. To better understand the seemingly intractable problems in the...
Public Schools Need Fewer Mandates, Parents Need More Choices
Over the past year, the Normandy School District has grabbed the state’s attention, and for good reason. Little more than...
Are Charter Schools the School Transfer Fix?
When Stella Erondu moved to America from Nigeria in 1977, she was surprised to find the streets were not in...
Show-Me Now! School Choice: Back to Francis Howell
James Shuls, Ph.D., talks about the Goodloe family’s decision to leave the Normandy School District and return to Francis Howell...
That’s Why We Need More School Choice
Lorrine and Naomi Goodloe. Photo by Robert Cohen, [email protected] As someone who studies the issue of education policy quite closely,...
Charity Is Not Your Strong Suit, Francis Howell
On Wednesday, Elisa Crouch and Jessica Bock of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Francis Howell will allow transfer students...
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