Tag Archives: Missouri

Missouri State Senators and Representatives from the Kansas City Area

By DTRTFK | February 3rd, 2012
DoTheRightThingForKids.org

A .pdf ver­sion of this list is also avail­able for down­load. Missouri State Senators Dist. First Last Email Phone 11 Victor Callahan Victor_Callahan@senate.mo.gov 573–751‑3074 10 Jolie Justus Jolie.Justus@senate.mo.gov 573–751‑2788 8 Will Kraus Will.Kraus@senate.mo.gov 573–751‑1464 31 David Pearce David.Pearce@senate.mo.gov 573–751‑2272 17 Luann Ridgeway Luann.Ridgeway@senate.mo.gov 573–751‑2547 34 Rob Schaaf Rob.Schaaf@senate.mo.gov 573–751‑2183 Missouri State Representatives Dist. First Last […]

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Senate Panel Recommends Long Range Goals

By DTRTFK | January 7th, 2011
DoTheRightThingForKids.org

Missouri’s Education Reform Panel has released a report that pro­poses a long range agenda for the State’s pub­lic schools with a goal of improv­ing stu­dent per­for­mance and teach­ing effec­tive­ness. Recommendations include char­ter schools state-wide, a sys­tem for eval­u­at­ing teach­ing and award­ing merit pay, and a sin­gle state depart­ment of edu­ca­tion. Read more at the the Missouri Education Reform Council website. […]

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Book Review: Cheating Our Kids — How Politics and Greed Ruin Education

By lindsay | October 20th, 2009

No one can accuse Joe Williams of cen­sur­ing a par­tic­u­lar per­son or group of peo­ple for the per­ceived decline in pub­lic edu­ca­tion over the last sev­eral decades.  In Cheating Our Kids:  How Politics and Greed Ruin Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), Mr. Williams asserts that there is plenty of blame to go around—from teach­ers’ unions to […]

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KCMSD Facts You Should Know

By lindsay | September 13th, 2009

• The KCMSD spent $15,142 per stu­dent in 2008 while the state aver­age is only $9,338 per stu­dent. (1) • The KCMSD has an annual bud­get of more than $280 mil­lion for only 16,800 stu­dents in 2009. (2) • The aver­age ACT score from stu­dents in the KCMSD is 16.8. (The min­i­mum score required to get into […]

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