Annelise Hanshaw
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Cole County judge hears challenge to Boone County charter school expansion (opens the original)
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by Annelise Hanshaw - MISSOURI INDEPENDENT A Cole County Circuit Court judge will decide whether to strike down a 2024 law allowing charter schools in Boone County, a case that could further define Missouri’s constitutional ban on special laws. In a hearing Tuesday morning, attorneys representing Columbia Public Schools asked Circuit Court Judge Emily Fretwell to block a 2024 law that expanded Missouri’s charter school statute to include counties with “more than 150,000 but fewer than 200,000 in
Private donors are funding Missouri education board’s commissioner search, strategic plan (opens the original)
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by Annelise Hanshaw - MISSOURI INDEPENDENT Private philanthropy will fund two major initiatives underway at the Missouri State Board of Education, but the identities of the donors remain unknown to the public, the state education department and at least one of the contractors doing the work. Earlier this month, the board approved two memorandums of understanding with consultants helping search for a new education commissioner and craft a new strategic plan. Both documents note that the work will
Missouri Supreme Court hears appeal of school library ‘explicit sexual material’ law (opens the original)
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by Annelise Hanshaw - MISSOURI INDEPENDENT The Missouri Supreme Court is weighing whether a 2022 law making it a crime for school employees to provide students with “explicit sexual material” violates constitutional free speech protections. The law, which a Jackson County Circuit Court judge struck down last November, “sowed great confusion across Missouri school districts” and spurred school librarians to remove books from shelves when it was passed, attorneys representing the Missouri Associat
Missouri delays A-F letter grades for schools as superintendents raise concerns (opens the original)
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Missouri education officials on Tuesday pushed back the release of "A" through "F" grades for public schools until at least mid-November, giving districts a chance to review the ratings first after administrators raised concerns about the system. "We want to make sure that there's not a premature release, and that all of a sudden schools and districts are labeled with something that maybe does not line up with what we all consider accurate for our districts," Joplin Schools Superintendent Kerry
Missouri education board declines to seek $300 million increase in school aid (opens the original)
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by Annelise Hanshaw - MISSOURI INDEPENDENT The Missouri State Board of Education declined Tuesday to seek the roughly $300 million increase needed to fully fund the state’s public school funding formula next year, opting instead to request lawmakers allocate the same amount schools are receiving this year. The decision came after board members deadlocked over the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s proposed budget and whether the state should request money officials acknowledge la
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