A recently released cyber audit of DESE’s student data system (MOSIS) revealed several weaknesses that MO State Auditor Galloway said placed 1.5 million current and former students’ personal information, such […]
Today a handful of Republicans are going to help Nancy Pelosi and well-connected special interest groups revive the Export-Import Bank. In July, conservatives had a major victory when you shut down the Export-Import Bank, which was nothing more than a slush fund for corporate welfare. Even though the bank has been expired for over 100 […]
The Show-Me Institute released a study on the cost of holding union certification elections and how to make them affordable. Many employees currently employed and forced to be members of a union never had the opportunity to vote for the union to begin with. It is important a recertification process is instituted to ensure all […]
Too often local officials demand that police write more traffic tickets to bring in additional revenue. Many of our nation’s cities are beset with tension between residents and the elected officials and law-enforcement officers who serve them. In my home state of Missouri, weeks of protests in Ferguson began on Aug. 9, 2014, when a […]
HB1490 required the State Board of Education to hold three public hearings on the standards development process. Monday October 26, from 1-3:00 p.m. will be the last of these hearings. […]
First off, why is it important that we use reconciliation to repeal Obamacare this Congress? Reconciliation is a powerful tool to get legislation through Congress, but it has no value as a law-making exercise with President Obama in the White House (i.e. any Republican bill will be vetoed; any bill he would sign would get […]
As school districts contemplate implementing the state recommended teacher evaluation system (aka, Marzano or Hazelwood plan) and the State Board of Education considers a “Report on District Alignment to the […]
This week, the House will be considering the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act, which would repeal the individual and employer mandates from Obamacare, as well as place a one-year moratorium on some Planned Parenthood funding. Heritage Action has endorsed the use of the tool to repeal Obamacare in its entirety, but believes this use […]
School Boards use taxpayer money to operate, whether their funding consists of local taxes, state formula funding or federal grants/dollars. School Boards are not private companies that produce a […]
Social Emotional Learning (SEL), teaching students how to regulate their emotions, problem-solve, and disagree respectfully, has been a goal for teaching the “whole child” since 2003 in California. It is […]
Ryan Johnson joined KSGF’s Nick Reed in studio to discuss ethics and our elected officials. He mentioned an ethics pledge penned by former Senator John Lamping that should be reviewed by voters. Ryan and Nick also discussed the poor state of our education system and how government works to force itself on our children rather […]
The agriculture tour season has ended. Senator Claire McCaskill finished up her statewide tour in early September. Members of the Missouri legislature took their own tour at the end of September. Much good can come from these tours if those taking them listened. Instead of “good” we are likely to see more cronyism. Farming is important. But in an editorial […]
Status: The federal government is responsible for 40 percent of national spending on surface transportation projects (highways and mass transit) through the Highway Trust Fund (HTF). Congress is looking at a bailout of the HTF that extends the federal highway program for up to 6 years and costs up to $317 billion. As a result […]
Original Post: Conservatism Is The New Black.
What has 50 years of loyalty to Democrats won for African-Americans? If you answered “civil rights legislation,” you better look at who voted for the laws and who opposed. (Hint: Republicans yea, Democrats nay.) Welfare? In 1967 the poverty rate was 14 percent. In 2014, the poverty rate was 14 percent. In the interim, we…
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This teacher discovers no one has the answers to her Common Core questions. From How Bad Is It Going to Get?: And even worse – despite the fact that […]