The Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education approved a budget request this morning that asks the state for flat appropriations next year. That’s not because public universities don’t need or want a funding increase.
Rather, it’s because the state’s Office of…
JEFFERSON CITY — The Senate spent all morning talking education, and it still hasn’t gotten through the whole discussion.
It was debating a bill, sponsored by President Pro Tem Charlie Shields, that would allow virtual classes and change how the school…
In case you missed it, the Post-Dispatch ran a guest editorial yesterday from Faith Sandler, executive director of the The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis. In it, she strongly supports Gov. Jay Nixon’s proposal to equalize the awards that public…
Two bills have been filed in the Missouri General Assembly that would change how state scholarship money is distributed through the Access Missouri program.
Sen. Kurt Shaefer, R-Columbia, is the sponsor of SB 390. Rep. Gayle Kingery, R-Poplar Bluff, has filed HB…
The leaders of Missouri’s private colleges and universities are not pleased by one part of Gov. Jay Nixon’s proposed budget that would cut state scholarship levels among students who attend private universities.
In a statement put out today, the group Independent…
