By Jason Hancock | Editor-in-Chief
Good morning,
Missouri lawmakers created a seat for an active classroom teacher on the State Board of Education in 2018. For eight years, it remained empty.
That changed Thursday, when Gov. Mike Kehoe appointed Park Hill High School math teacher Michael McDonald to the advisory role. Kehoe also named former St. Louis Mayor Vince Schoemehl to a voting seat on the board, which is preparing to select Missouri’s next education commissioner.
Annelise Hanshaw reports on the appointments and a state education board now dominated by Kehoe’s selections.
(Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent)
by Annelise Hanshaw
The appointments come at a critical time, as the board has begun a nationwide search for the department’s next leader.
(Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent)
by Rudi Keller
When lawmakers met last summer to pass legislation providing state support for stadiums, they included property tax caps and freezes for 97 of Missouri’s 114 counties.
(Naomi O’Donnell/The Beacon)
by Meg Cunningham
As cyclospora cases climb in Missouri and Kansas, public health investigators are tracing illnesses through a vast produce supply chain.
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