Home • Missouri Independent [Unofficial]Missouri higher education officials feel pressure to overhaul funding formula
NonilexJaneese #LewisGeorge, a #DemocraticSocialist, leads Kenyan R. McDuffie by double digits in the Democratic primary for #DCmayor, boosted by voters who find her more honest & think she will do a better job handling issues of #affordability & #PublicSchools, acc/to a Washington Post-Schar School poll. But a quarter of voters remain undecided about the race as the primary enters its final days.
I’d love it if a democratic socialist ran the city #Trump lives in.
Brad Rosenheim100 year anniversary celebration at the primary school my son just graduated from. It has had many names, and many programs, over that time, but it has served a community of people who are proud of it.
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Freedom From Religion Foundation [Unofficial]Freethought Radio – June 4, 2026
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State takeovers of local school districts impact more than grades and finances
State takeovers of local school districts impact more than grades and finances • Missouri Independent
This year, Missouri joins Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Florida in use of an A-F public school and district grading framework. In this accountability system, states consider usual metrics like graduation rates and state testing scores to determine a district’s “grade.” These data points are also used by the Missouri […]
DoomsdaysCWWave Goodbye to the Last Normal Year for #AmericanSchools
Thanks to Trump’s “#BigBeautifulBill,” the ’26–’27 school year will look wildly different.
By Adam Laats, June 01, 2026
"As schools send children home for the summer, we need to recognize a frightening fact: This could be the last year of public schooling the way we’ve known it. Donald Trump’s new school funding scheme, pushed through as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will kick in during the middle of the next school year, in January 2027. It’s going to create a financial tsunami for public schools. The real tragedy is that there’s no mystery to it: We already know what will happen, because the scheme is not really new at all. It brings us back to the bad old days, to the failed and inadequate divided school budgets from before the Civil War. Trump’s plan brings back the devasting problem that our modern public school systems were designed to fix."
Read more:
https://slate.com/life/2026/06/donald-trump-school-vouchers-education-funding-bbb.html
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Missouri school funding overhaul runs into a property assessment problem
Charter-school fight sinks Missouri education package in final days of session
MusiqueNow 🇵🇸 ✡️A #documentary abt #parents fighting back against #ProudBoys , #Christofascists and other #FarRight loonies backed by the rich far right nutters who are interfering in U.S. #publicschools
The College InvestorNYC public schools now spend $43,778 per student — the highest of any major district in the U.S. — while ranking 46th nationally in 4th-grade math. Jeff Bezos hit them for it on CNBC, but he actually undersold the per-pupil cost by nearly $9,000. https://thecollegeinvestor.com/80970/bezos-ripped-nyc-schools-on-cnbc-the-numbers-are-even-worse/ #Education #PublicSchools #PersonalFinance
