Shedding Light on Anti-transparency Arguments
A bill is making its way through the Missouri Senate that would require public universities to disclose basic information about...
Constitutional Law Expert Joshua Hawley Weighs in on Obamacare at Policy Forum
Joshua Hawley, a professor of law at the University of Missouri, was gracious enough to join the Show-Me Institute in Columbia...
King v. Burwell: Obamacare and the Rule of Law
In this February 2015 Policy Forum, University of Missouri Law Professor Joshua Hawley discusses the King v. Burwell case which...
Mizzou Gets an F on Transparency
As first appearing in the Columbia Daily Tribune: It seems absurd that a public university would treat the content of...
Show-Me Now! Mizzou: What’s there to Hide?
The University of Missouri has refused to release course syllabi in accordance with state transparency laws. John Wright points...
Taxing a Population: Saint Louis and Kansas City’s Earnings Tax Draw People Away
The city of Kansas City grew in population by 4 percent between 2000 and 2010, but the population of its...
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...
The Blind Men And School Funding
Many people know the story of the blind men and the elephant. As the story goes, several blind men each...
Who Teaches The Teachers?
The Kansas City Public Library recently hosted a presentation by and conversation with National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) President...
Now It’s Time To Say Goodbye
Folks in Columbia, Mo., will not be flying to see Mickey this summer. Frontier Airlines, one of the two airlines...
Columbia’s Mayor Provides Flimsy Justification For Airport Expansion
City officials in Columbia, Mo., are considering increases in hotel taxes and sales taxes to fund a costly $17 million...
Why Enhanced Enterprise Zones Are A Bad Deal For Missouri Cities
Sometimes acronyms are designed to create a false impression. That is the case with Enhanced Enterprise Zones, or EEZs, which...
Online Learning: When More Is More
In higher education, distance learning has been around for a very long time. In fact, the University of London began...
Meet Me On The Lido Deck After Class
There are many concerns about rising costs of higher education in Missouri. These concerns are warranted; a USA Today article that...
Props To Sen. Crowell For Speaking Out Against Budget Gimmicks
Today, the Missouri House of Representatives approved a $24 billion state budget. What remains to be seen is whether that...
A ‘Historic’ Surge
The tuition hikes that the University of Missouri is instituting are affecting real families all across the state. The Show-Me...
Is Franklin County Violating The State’s Blaine Amendment?
A recent article on emissourian.com questioned whether a Franklin County program violates the Missouri Constitution. Franklin County has and continues to...
Fear Of Censorship Has Little To Do With Teacher Tenure Reform
In yesterday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Frank LoMonte writes that teacher tenure reform might result in public school journalism teachers being...
Private School Choice and the Turner Decision
It is serendipitous that the Missouri Legislature has gone back to work this month, just in time for the kick-off...
