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2001 Lower Ed. Stories

• 12/13/2001: Radio Story - Governor Holden will announce what he plans to cut out of the budget to help with the state's economic problems
• 12/ 6/2001: Radio Story - Commissioner of Education, D. Kent King, encourages Missouri teachers to educate and teach students on the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
• 11/ 8/2001: Radio Story - The Missouri PTA and School Board Associations have the backing of the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on a petition for a majority, not two-thirds, vote on bond issues for state schools.
• 9/25/2001: Radio Story - The Missouri State Teachers Association opposes Govenor Holden's executive order on collective bargaining while the Missouri National Education Association supports the govenor.
• 5/18/2001: Newspaper Story - As lawmakers praised themselves for a "job well done," 900 seniors in Kansas City prepare to graduate from a school that has been stripped of its state accreditation.
• 4/26/2001: Radio Story - The Senate gave initial approval to a school funding plan for construction.
• 4/25/2001: Newspaper Story - Gov. Bob Holden's plan to have the state provide monetary incentives for completing the National Board Certification process passed out of the House and awaits its next hurdle; the Senate.
• 4/18/2001: Newspaper Story - Feature story how one school has implemented the character-based education proposal of the governor.
• 4/18/2001: Radio Story - The Senate education committee passed a bill that would give nationally certified teachers a five-thousand dollar a year pay raise.
• 4/ 4/2001: Radio Story - Several parents and teachers spoke out to the Senate Committee meeting about certain restrictions with the A+ scholarship program.
• 4/ 4/2001: Radio Story - Passing school bond issues with a simple majority did face some opposition, but it is getting closer to the ballot.
• 4/ 4/2001: Newspaper Story - Sen. Sarah Steelman, R-Rolla, is sponsoring a bill aimed at getting more colleges to offer American Sign Language classes. The bill would require these classes to be counted as a foreign language in college and allow ASL classes taken in high school to count as a foreign language course for college admission.
• 3/14/2001: Radio Story - Under a proposed bill, Missouri schools would receive more money from the state in order to teach English to foreign students.
• 3/12/2001: Radio Story - A proposed bill would increase the amount of scholarships offered to education students in St. Louis.
• 2/27/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri public school students could be finished with school earlier this year under a bill introduced by Rep. Charles Shields.
• 2/27/2001: Newspaper Story - A bill in the house would give state police mandatory jurisdiction over crime scenes in which seizure occurs. This will help allocate more forfeiture funds into education.
• 2/22/2001: Newspaper Story - Sen. Peter Kinder, R-Cape Girardeau, fulfilled a promise to make urban education a prioirity by calling attention to the "crisis" in the Kansas City and St. Louis school districts.
• 2/20/2001: Newspaper Story - An amendment that would lower the passage of school bond issues to a simple majority vote gained first round approval in the House today.
• 2/19/2001: Newspaper Story - Veterans who left high school to enlist in World War I, World War II or the Korean conflict would be granted a honorary high school diploma under a proposal under consideration in the House.
• 2/15/2001: Newspaper Story - Jonathan Kozol, a noted author and expert of social inequalities, addresses students and faculty at MU.
• 2/14/2001: Radio Story - Ted House wants one-quarter of the tobacco settlement to go to public schools.
• 2/14/2001: Radio Story - A resolution to pass school bonds with a simple majority as opposed to a four-sevenths majority made it through the House education committee Wednesday.
• 1/31/2001: Radio Story - A bill proposed in the Missouri Senate would allow parents to choose which school their children attend within each district.
• 1/30/2001: Newspaper Story - As he had throughout his campaign, Missouri Gov. Bob Holden made education the focus of his State of the State address Tuesday.
• 1/29/2001: Radio Story - Representatives gave several new ideas to alleviate Missouri's teacher shortage and improve school funding.
• 1/29/2001: Radio Story - The State auditor, Claire McCaskill, released a report saying that local government and school districts are losing money, because of failure to rely on competitive bidding for bond sales.
• 1/24/2001: Radio Story - Lobbyists told a Senate committee that charter schools should not receive state funding without accreditation.