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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.
Originally published on December 17, 2020 7:46 pm
Charter schools have broken out of the boundaries of Missouri’s two largest cities for the first time.
The Leadership School won a charter from a divided state school board Thursday and plans to open as an elementary school in north St. Louis County next fall. It will be located somewhere within the boundaries of the provisionally accredited Normandy school district.
The Leadership School’s model is to give students a voice and choice in their education by prioritizing leadership training. Founder Kimberly Townsend said the school will offer students a sense of belonging and strong academics.
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(The Center Square) â Missouriâs underperforming K-12 schools could be forced to transfer students to other schools, allow the district to authorize a charter school to replace it, or be shuttered if it does not show improvements.
Senate Bill 133, sponsored by Sen. Cindy OâLaughlin, R-Shelbina, would require the stateâs Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to publish an annual ranking of Missouri K-12 schools performing within the bottom 5 percent of state schools under standards set by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
A school that lands in the bottom 5 percent during three years of any five-year span will be designated as a persistently failing schoolâ under SB 133.