Missouri lawmakers pass longtime priorities
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The Missouri Capitol in early December 2020.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri s Republican-led Legislature has pushed through a number of longtime priorities that failed to get across the finish line for years.
The list of successes from the session that ended Friday includes a prescription drug monitoring program, which took lawmakers a decade to pass.
Lawmakers this year also approved a bill to raise the gas tax for the first time in 25 years.
Another bill on the governor s desk would make Missouri the last state to require out-of-state companies to collect sales taxes on online purchases made by residents.
Missouri lawmakers pass longtime priorities
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ATLANTA (AP) With her children struggling in many classes last spring, Kelli Rivera became so frustrated with how her suburban Atlanta district was handling the coronavirus pandemic that she withdrew them to home-school them. They’re back in public school and mostly attending class in person. For now.
Rivera is thinking of enrolling her younger son in private school next year, and she hopes the state of Georgia might help her pay for it with an expansion of school choice programs.
“We’ve been just a public school family forever, without any intention or desire to leave,” Rivera said. “But when the pandemic hit and we moved into virtual schooling, it really wasn’t working for us.”