"The only communication prohibited in Senate Bill 54 was hidden communication between a teacher and student," said the bill's sponsor, Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-St. Louis County. Cunningham met with education organizations earlier this summer to address their concerns and amend the bill.
Lembke rushed over to the Missouri Healthcare Insurance Pool meeting along side senators Jane Cunningham of St. Louis and Rob Schaaf of St. Joseph, to stop a vote from taking place.
St. Louis County Represenative Jane Cunningham is the sponsor of this bill and says stagnant test scores are the motivation for looking into teacher performance.
Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-St. Louis County, led the opposition to the bill on Monday. Cunningham said she does not want to keep giving school districts more money without also demanding higher student performance.
Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-St. Louis County, said "We can not afford that when we are nearing 10 percent unemployment. I can not think of one thing that is more helpful to bringing jobs to Missouri than this issue."
Senator Jane Cunningham says Catholic schools are willing to donate eight-thousand five-hundred seats for students and thinks a compromise can be made with bill sponsor Senator Jim Lembke (Lem-key).
One of those six was R. Chairman Jane Cunningham, who says she did not make her decision until she heard one testimony from a South Carolina site consultant during last weeks hearing.
"Missouri was the first state in the entire nation to give its citizens the right to vote on it (health care), and we received from our voters and overwhelming 71 percent majority that sent a megaphone message to Washington, D.C. that we want to make our own health care decisions, we do not want them coming from Washington, D.C.," said the resolution's sponsor, Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-St. Louis County. "While other AGs (attorneys general) in the nation have voluntarily joined this..
Students are supposed to have the option to transfer to county schools, but the county schools have not accepted a single student, said Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-St. Louis County.
"Missouri was the first state in the entire nation to give its citizens the right to vote on it (health care), and we received from our voters and overwhelming 71 percent majority that sent a megaphone message to Washington, D.C. that we want to make our own health care decisions, we do not want them coming from Washington, D.C.," said the resolution's sponsor, Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-St. Louis County. "While other (attorneys general) in the nation have voluntarily joined this lawsuit ..
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