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This week’s highlights: Top News - Head Start facing elimination after 60 years Missouri Update - A look at the Governor’s first 100 days Kansas Update - Revenues Are Up — But Kansas’ Budget Still Faces Long-Term Imbalance Additional Highlights - Team Spotlight: Claudia Fury-Aguirre, Manager of...
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With the Missouri House recently passing HB 711 (Pollitt), the conversation around open enrollment and the misconceptions have intensified. While some fear this policy will destabilize public schools, the reality is far less dramatic. Open enrollment is a form of public school choice where families...
This week’s highlights: Top News - Ambiguity Abounds in Federal Education Policy Missouri Update - Open Enrollment: Debunking the Myths Kansas Update - Aligned's Role in HB 2303 and the State Longitudinal Data System Additional Highlights - Spring Break: A Student-Inspired Tradition Read our latest...
Across Kansas and Missouri, voters are being asked to weigh in on school bond proposals that will shape the future of their local schools. From basic facility upgrades to new construction, these bonds are becoming a common tool for districts to modernize classrooms, address safety concerns, and...
This week's highlights: Top News - Across Kansas and Missouri, voters are being asked to weigh in on school bond proposals that will shape the future of their local schools. From basic facility upgrades to new construction, these bonds are becoming a common tool for districts to modernize classrooms...
Today, the Missouri State Board of Education approved a rule formalizing the Quality Assurance Report (QAR) program for early care and education. The QAR program is voluntary, helping early learning providers set benchmarks and improve program quality—not as a punitive measure but as a continuous...
This week’s highlights: Top News - As Kansas and Missouri work through their education budgets and consider changes to how they fund schools, special education funding is getting long-overdue attention — and the conversation couldn’t come at a more critical time. Missouri Update - The Department of...