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Missouri schools bill will require lead testing, literacy programs
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JEFFERSON CITY — For a lot of Missouri lawmakers within the remaining week of session, good issues are coming in giant packages.
With simply two days till the Friday night deadline to ship laws to Gov. Mike Parson’s desk, each the Home and Senate are shifting to get priorities by means of the end line. Central amongst them is a invoice loaded with applications and reforms for Ok-12 schooling: it requires colleges to check and filter their water for lead, places in place evaluation and intervention applications for pupil literacy and creates substitute instructing certificates, amongst a litany of different measures.
Senate Invoice 681, which was initially sponsored with a give attention to literacy applications by Republican Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin of Shelbina, earned reward from the opposite facet of the aisle Tuesday night. It handed the Senate 29-4 and now awaits a remaining vote within the Home.
“I feel as you’ve got gone by means of the varied provisions included within the invoice, it is clear that plenty of senators have priorities connected to this invoice, all geared toward enhancing pupil outcomes,” mentioned Sen. Lauren Arthur, a Kansas Metropolis Democrat.
Beneath the laws, colleges are required to check all water used for consuming, cooking or cleansing, and make the outcomes publicly obtainable. If any water samples show lead ranges over 5 components per billion, they are going to be filtered or mounted with cash from state companies.
All districts and constitution colleges might want to have “studying success plans” below the invoice, which embrace each classroom instruction and suggestions for at-home studying with dad and mom or guardians. All college students from kindergarten to 3rd grade can be examined originally and finish of the varsity 12 months, in addition to newly enrolled college students by means of fifth grade.
The invoice was not with out criticism, as a number of members of the Senate Conservative Caucus argued it ought to have included provisions concerning vital race concept or trans athletes — two points they’ve persistently tried to legislate on this session.
Different applications and measures included within the invoice are:
- Creation of a four-year substitute instructing certificates, with minimal coaching or school schooling necessities and an internet state coaching program.
- A lowered “open enrollment” system, wherein households who personal residential or agricultural property in a unique faculty district can ship as much as 4 kids to that district, as long as they pay taxes to that district.
- A rise in the amount of cash the state pays into the Profession Ladder program, which was revived within the price range this 12 months amid a push to pay lecturers extra. The state would now pay 60% of this system’s value, up from 40%, whereas colleges pay the opposite 40% in native {dollars}. It will additionally now take lecturers two years to qualify for this system as an alternative of 5.
- A pilot program for “restoration excessive colleges” for college kids recovering from dependancy or dependency.
- A requirement for colleges to undertake a “group engagement coverage” for a way the general public communicates with the board.
- Designate the second week in April as “Holocaust Training Week.”
- The creation of a grant program for districts to create competency-based curriculum, which is designed for college kids to study and grasp expertise at a tempo in step with their potential.
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On the governor’s desk: Agricultural tax credit, eminent area payments
Two extra priorities have earned the approval of each chambers and now await Gov. Parson’s signature.
Home Invoice 1720 offers a litany of tax credit for the agricultural business — together with meat processing, biofuel and wooden vitality. It additionally creates a crop mortgage program for household farms to purchase specialty seeds and tools. The tax credit will expire in 2024.
The invoice noticed bipartisan passage within the Home on Tuesday after a controversial portion that might have benefited distinguished builders who invested no less than $30 million in rural companies within the state was eliminated.
Home Invoice 2005 would require firms in search of to construct electrical strains to pay extra to farmers and landowners whose land is used for the strains, and supply extra of the vitality produced to clients in Missouri.
It doesn’t particularly goal the Grain Belt Specific, an interstate electrical line that might run by means of Missouri and has been a goal for farm teams and Republicans for years. The corporate creating {the electrical} line can use eminent area legal guidelines to achieve rights to property throughout a northern belt of the state, with sure tips in place.
Lawmakers on either side of the aisle within the Home on Tuesday mentioned doable laws addressing extra broad eminent area coverage within the state was wanted going ahead.
Shifting with momentum: Sexual assault invoice of rights, hospital visiting restrictions & photo voltaic panel laws
A number of different payments have come up for debate all through the week, inching by means of negotiations and towards remaining votes.
Senate Invoice 775 makes plenty of tweaks to the judicial course of, particularly in regard to instances of sexual assault and baby trafficking, designed to amp up protections for survivors. Coined the “Sexual Assault Survivors’ Invoice of Rights” and spearheaded by Republican Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder of Sikeston, the invoice is in convention between the Home and Senate and was authorized by the Senate on Tuesday.
It has persistently run into opposition by Sen. Bob Onder, a Lake St. Louis Republican and member of the Conservative Caucus, who questioned Rehder on the Senate flooring Tuesday night a couple of new provision within the invoice concerning baby trafficking, arguing that it violated a rule that laws should be contained to a single topic. Earlier opposition by Onder and different members of the caucus spurred a press convention led by Rehder condemning the group.
“The ladies of this physique got here collectively and have fought for this laws and it is unhappy that we have needed to combat for this laws each single time,” Rehder mentioned. “To assume that we’ve got males on this physique who continuously carry up points in terms of defending our girls and the insurance policies that we are attempting to do.”
Missouri state authorities:Senators condemn ‘self-serving’ GOP members after sexual assault invoice blocked
Home Invoice 2116 and different packaged payments, which curb the flexibility for hospitals to restrict guests to sufferers in response to pandemic-era restrictions, have seen some alterations throughout debate within the Senate.
The laws now requires hospitals to permit a affected person to have two “compassionate care guests,” which may embrace members of the family, to have in-person contact with the particular person throughout visiting hours. They might additionally designate an “important caregiver” throughout states of emergency resembling COVID-19 to take care of in-person contact.
Sen. Invoice White, a Joplin Republican, mentioned the adjustments, which have been “supported by well being care entities” and fewer prone to endanger Missouri’s standing with federal laws whereas nonetheless sustaining a give attention to “a fundamental component of the human situation.”
“We’re attempting to speak about these individuals as greater than only a customer, that they’re really offering a helpful well being care perform,” White mentioned. “They’re a part of a care crew.”
The invoice awaits a vote within the Home.
Battlefield Republican Sen. Eric Burlison’s Senate Invoice 820 barring owners’ associations from forbidding rooftop photo voltaic panels additionally continues to make progress, passing the Senate and awaiting a remaining vote within the Home.
Renewed pushes however questionable destiny: Redistricting, abortion & vaccines
Lawmakers’ last-ditch effort to attract new congressional districts continues apace, with a map passing the Home and getting a Senate committee listening to Wednesday afternoon. However the Conservative Caucus has indicated that debate on the topic on the Senate flooring might successfully be the very last thing the chamber tackles.
“The session is over when the maps come up,” Onder mentioned on the ground Tuesday.
One other persistently controversial topic, COVID-19 vaccinations, was inserted right into a invoice centered on monetary statements for political entities. Rep. Chris Sander, a Republican from Lone Jack, proposed an modification banning taxpayer {dollars} from going to occasions requiring or asking about vaccination or testing for the virus. Comparable language inserted into the state price range by the Home was later stripped out by the Senate. Its addition to Senate Invoice 724 might complicate its future. It’ll now seemingly go to negotiations between the 2 chambers.
Republicans are additionally advancing a decision by means of the Senate with the intent to activate Missouri’s abortion “set off ban” if Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court docket. Senate Concurrent Decision 37, sponsored by Sen. Justin Brown of Rolla, is certainly one of three ways in which the state’s abortion ban can go into impact if the excessive court docket repeals Roe this summer season. The opposite two are an govt order from the governor or an opinion issued by the lawyer common; each are prone to additionally challenge these.
The decision was handed out of committee Tuesday morning and awaits Senate debate.
Successfully useless: Statewide open enrollment, prolonged Medicaid for post-pregnancy, ‘Dad and mom’ Invoice of Rights’
A number of measures with momentum at completely different occasions all through session have turn into seemingly casualties within the remaining days.
Initially included within the giant schooling invoice package deal was a provision permitting college students to attend faculty districts exterior of the one they reside in. However that was stripped from the package deal throughout negotiations between the Home and Senate, with a compromise for a extra restricted model.
Prolonged Medicaid protection for moms for a 12 months after being pregnant was additionally stripped out of a invoice with anticipated Senate opposition. Initially included in Senate Invoice 690 from Rehder, the Sikeston Republican, the “Present-Me Wholesome Infants” program would have considerably prolonged how lengthy moms are coated by the low-income well being care program after delivery, up from the present 60 days.
However Rep. Phil Christofanelli, a St. Peters Republican, informed lawmakers on the Home flooring Tuesday that the coverage “would have had hassle throughout the constructing,” seemingly referring to the Senate Conservative Caucus, and was thus eliminated alongside a behavioral disaster grant program and different measures.
Lastly, a poll measure that might have included a mum or dad’s proper to direct their kid’s schooling within the state structure failed within the Home. Lawmakers on either side of the aisle warned it might have led to vital restrictions on lecturers and colleges.
Home Joint Decision 110 additionally would have put constitutional restrictions on how race, racism and fairness are taught.
The legislative session will finish Friday at 6 p.m.
Galen Bacharier covers Missouri politics & authorities for the Information-Chief. Contact him at gbacharier@news-leader.com, (573) 219-7440 or on Twitter @galenbacharier.
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U.S. Open Qualifier Jadeon Carter (2025) Sends Verbal Commitment to Missouri
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Jadeon Carter from Lincoln, Nebraska, has made a verbal commitment to the University of Missouri for the 2025-26 school year and beyond.
“I chose Missouri because of the academic resources and the athletic resources they provide. The team culture makes it feel like home and all of the staff and swimmers are very supportive of me.”
Carter is a rising senior at Lincoln East High School. He swims year-round with Lincoln Select Swimming and is a Winter U.S. Open qualifier in the 200 backstroke. In high school swimming, he is the reigning Nebraska state champion in the 200 free (1:41.20) and 500 free (4:35.12). He holds school records in the 200 fre, 500 free, and 200 free relay, and he made the Academic All-Conference and Athletic All-Conference state teams.
In club swimming, Carter holds the Midwestern Swimming LSC record in the boys’ 13-14 500 free. This summer, he clocked a handful of LCM best times at Columbia Sectionals, placing 13th in the 200 free (1:58.08, PB), 13th in the 400 free (4:11.33), 7th in the 800 free (8:36.40), 16th in the 100 back (59.76 in prelims, PB), 6th in the 200 back (2:06.44, PB), and 12th in the 200 IM (2:12.90, PB). Two weeks later he competed at Midwestern Swimming Long Course Championships, where he won the 200/400/1500 free, 200 back, and 200 IM, and was runner-up in the 100 back. He picked up new times in the 100 free (55.39), 1500 free (16:47.07), and (50 back (29.33).
Best SCY times:
- 200 free – 1:41.20
- 500 free – 4:34.01
- 1000 free – 9:38.10
- 200 back – 1:50.43
- 100 back – 52.41
Carter will join the Tigers’ class of 2029 with fellow verbal commits Drew Ploof, Ben Madson, and Sebastian Gonzalez Barboza. Mizzou finished 8th out of 10 teams in the men’s meet at the 2024 SEC Championships.
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Missouri State football vs. Montana today: Live updates, highlights from Week 1 game
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Missouri State football: Ryan Beard previews Montana
Missouri State head football coach Ryan Beard held his weekly press conference ahead of Saturday’s opener at Montana.
Missouri State football season has arrived and an offseason of looking to the 2025 season and its impending move to Conference USA will be set aside for the Bears’ final season in the Missouri Valley Football Conference and FCS.
Opening day will present quite a challenge.
Missouri State will open its 2024 season at FCS national runner-up Montana on Saturday in Missoula, Montana, at 8 p.m. This is the first time the two teams have met on the gridiron.
Ryan Beard is entering his second season as Missouri State’s head coach. His team will look to build off a 4-7 season while staying focused on this season despite being ineligible for the FCS Playoffs.
Montana finished last season as the FCS national runner-up. The Grizzlies hope to finish the job this season as they enter the season as the No. 3-ranked team in the country.
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Missouri father uses a funeral to wean daughter off pacifier
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The Bishop family of Festus, Missouri, can smile now, but a few months ago the mood was much more somber as Courtney, Jake and their 3-year-old daughter Hazel said goodbye to a very important member of the family: Hazel’s beloved pacifier.
“It’s not good for her teeth and her jaws and all of that, so we had been trying to wean her off of it for some time,” Jake, 35, said.
Hazel’s beloved pacifier, affectionately known as “Paci,” had been with her for years. Jake knew saying goodbye could come with tears and tantrums, so he searched for creative approaches to ease the transition. He considered options such as cutting off the end of the pacifier, soaking it in vinegar or planting it in a pot.
Instead, Jake chose to give Paci a funeral.
Of course, before the internet, parents used to just take the thing away and deal with the tantrum. But today, for better or worse, young parents like Jake would rather not go to war over a binky. They’re “pacy-fists,” if you will.
“You need them to go through some tough times to really grow as a person but you don’t need to make extra tough times for them,” Jake said. “They’ll have plenty of those coming up.”
Parents delight in making milestones, but those milestones are often bittersweet because each turning point is a point of no return.
“She’s transitioning to the next stage of her life,” Jake said of Hazel, their first child. “We just got to hold onto those moments and those memories, because it goes fast.”
Hazel hasn’t asked for Paci again since. Although, shortly after the ceremony, Jake dug it up and buried it again in a keepsake box, making dad the one who just can’t let go.
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