04.30.2009 10:23 am

Jeff Smith’s case for merit pay

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Jeff Smith

JEFFERSON CITY — Mo. Sen. Jeff Smith had an op-ed piece about education reform in the Beacon on Tuesday:

It is illogical for a 30-year teaching veteran whose students invariably make little academic progress to make twice what a third-year…

03.26.2009 10:29 am

Missouri Senate OKs education bill

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

JEFFERSON CITY — Working late into the night (or early into the morning, depending how you look at it) the Missouri Senate gave first-round approval to an omnibus education bill.

Tony Messenger over at the Political Fix wrote that Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, attached…