School choice bills have been pushed in Missouri for years. Will the pandemic pave the way?
By Tessa Weinberg
Yet despite massive GOP majorities in both the House and the Senate, they often fall short.
Since the expansion of charter schools into unaccredited districts in 2012, attempts to push through education reform have crashed into a wall of resistance year after year — resistance that spans across political, ideological and geographic lines.
Now the top Republicans in both the Missouri House and Senate have once again declared school choice a top priority, fast tracking bills that would expand charter schools statewide and establish scholarship accounts that could be used toward things like private school tuition.