A split inside Missouri’s school-choice coalition?

By Jason Hancock | Editor-in-Chief

Good morning,

Scrutiny of Missouri’s private school voucher program didn’t end with the legislative session. It left behind a more interesting question: who inside the school-choice coalition is willing to publicly defend the treasurer’s office running MOScholars — and who isn’t.

Annelise Hanshaw has the story of Treasurer Vivek Malek’s office mounting a last-minute defense as lawmakers considered shifting oversight to the education department. She found that one of the program’s most important players was noticeably silent.

by Annelise Hanshaw

As lawmakers weighed moving MOScholars out of the treasurer’s office, the program’s largest scholarship-granting organization stayed off a last-minute letter defending the status quo.

by Jonathan Shorman

The Trump administration’s push to reward its supporters also harkens back to an earlier era of American cronyism, experts say, while expanding the frontiers of political favoritism.

by Max McCoy

Americans are tested at intervals of a generation or two about what kind of country we’d like to live in. It’s seldom phrased that way, but perhaps it should be.

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