Carnahan said he would need to see the exact details of Clay's plan and the final committee report before he signed off on them. The committee has held hearings across the state to elicit public comment. It hopes to issue a final report by Dec. 15 and draft a bill for the entire General Assembly to debate next spring, said Sen. Ted House, D-St. Louis County, chairman of the committee.
Ironically, one of the most outspoken legislative critics was Sen. Ted House - who now chairs the special committee charged with drafting another proposal.
Sen. Ted House, D-St. Louis County, co-chairman of the committee, said that testimony by the school board members and superintendent earlier in the week showed the board was "unable to educate children in the school district within reasonable means" and that it had an "unwillingness to try to do so."
"It is not religious bigotry to support the constitution of the state," said Sen. Ted House, D-St. Charles. "It would destroy the ideal of a publicly funded school system."
Schools in St. Louis and Kansas City would get less of the money that will be left over from the collapse of desegregation under counter-legislation proposed by senator Ted House.
Bill sponsor Ted House said that since many parents don't take an active role in educating their children of the dangers of sex, having the schools teach abstinence is the best way to solve the problem.
Caskey blaimed the proposal's failure on opposition by Education Committee Chairman Sen. Ted House, D-St. Charles, and the inability of Senate leaders to keep the Senate in session long enough to force a vote.
As alternative, Senate Education Committee Chairman Ted House, D-St. Charles, proposes distributing the desegregation funds across the state on a more equalized basis. That approach would provide more funds to suburban schools and rural-area schools like Columbia.
Senate Education Committee Chairman Ted House unveiled Thursday his approach to distributing school desegregation funds after the federal courts get out of the picture.
The bill's sponsor, Sen. Ted House, D-St. Charles, responded that the legislation builds a framework for local school districts to create their own sex education programs.
Money that once went to blur racial boundaries in Missouri schools would become more evenly distributed across the state as a part of Senator Ted House's bill.
Committee Chairman..St. Charles County Senator..Ted House says the prospect of losing a driver's license gives kids a huge incentive to stay in school....