"So you can imagine that if you have some personal questions, you want to talk to somebody that may be has some empathy or some body can relate to your issue, I think, that in many ways we are losing out because of that," said the bill's sponsor, Rep. David Pearce, R-Warrensburg.
It's a problem that Rep. David Pearce, R-Warrensburg, knows well. Pearce, who sits on the House Education Appropriations Committee, also sits on the Warrensburg school board.
"What we've done is put (the testing funds) into the Foundation Formula, when in some cases there is no local incentive to fund (the exams)," said Rep. David Pearce, R-Warrensburg. "There aren't going to be any schools that do it."