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With open enrollment dead, Missouri lawmakers push carve-out for some property owners • Missouri Independent
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A statewide open enrollment system that will enable college students to attend a college district exterior of 1 through which they reside is probably going useless with simply three days left within the legislative session.
However proponents are optimistic a way more narrowly-tailored model centered solely on individuals who personal a number of properties in several faculty districts is poised to grow to be regulation.
On Tuesday evening, the Senate handed a wide-ranging schooling invoice that will enable homeowners of residential and agricultural property to ship as much as 4 of their kids to any faculty district the place they pay faculty taxes.
The invoice, sponsored by Republican Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin of Shelbina, now returns to the Home for a closing vote to ship the invoice to Gov. Mike Parson’s desk.
However Sen. Invoice Eigel, R-Weldon Spring, complained Tuesday night that the invoice was solely in a position to succeed due to damaged guarantees.
Amidst two hours of debate Tuesday evening, which concluded with the invoice passing 29 to 4, Eigel accused Home Majority Chief Dean Plocher of holding one other schooling invoice hostage — which might improve funding for constitution colleges — till the Senate handed an modification on O’Laughlin’s invoice. He additionally bemoaned the truth that different GOP priorities, like limiting transgender college students from collaborating at school sports activities, have been absent from the invoice.
Eigel by no means particularly talked about which modification, however the extra slender open enrollment provision was added to the invoice on the request of Plocher, R-Des Peres.
“What’s pushed this fracture is that the incoming Home Speaker has a provision on an modification on this invoice that he desires to see handed earlier than he lets constitution fairness funding go over within the Home,” Eigel alleged Tuesday.
Requested Monday if he was ready to convey the constitution funding invoice up for a closing vote within the Home till a model of open enrollment handed within the Senate, Plocher stated, “that’s method down the road” and that he was centered on lawmakers fulfilling their obligation to move redrawn Congressional maps.
The Home has but to move the constitution funding invoice regardless of it clearing the Senate almost three weeks in the past.
Open enrollment stripped
In the meantime, a extra complete statewide open enrollment system was stripped from O’Laughlin’s invoice when Senate and Home lawmakers met to work out variations within the invoice’s language.
O’Laughlin stated final week that whereas she helps open enrollment, “there are nonetheless folks with questions of their thoughts, notably within the faculty group, who’re frightened that it threatens the viability of their colleges.”
Different provisions — which included educating Black historical past, having districts report how they used federal stimulus funds and requiring instruction in cursive writing — have been in the end eliminated both as a result of they confronted opposition within the Senate or due to an absence of help from the governor, O’Laughlin stated finally week’s convention committee assembly.
With open enrollment faraway from the invoice, Rep. Brad Pollitt, R-Sedalia, stated it will be powerful for the difficulty to discover a path ahead earlier than the legislature adjourns at 6 p.m. Friday.
“I made it completely clear that if open enrollment was going to kill that schooling invoice that I used to be prepared to have it taken off for the betterment of the varsity districts,” Pollitt stated, pointing to the underlying invoice’s provisions, which goals to enhance scholar literacy charges.
The Home had narrowly despatched a standalone open enrollment invoice sponsored by Pollitt to the Senate in March, the place it has but to be debated.
With its probabilities of passage slim, Pollitt vowed to convey the invoice again subsequent yr.
“I don’t know what extra I must do,” Pollitt stated, “apart from for folks to know that I’m pro-public colleges.”
Property homeowners
One piece that continues to be within the invoice would develop the situations by which a scholar can attend a college district apart from the one through which they dwell.
Beginning within the 2023-24 faculty yr, homeowners of residential or agricultural property who’ve paid no less than $2,000 at school taxes for the earlier 4 years in a row could ship as much as 4 of their kids to a district through which the property is positioned. Households of transferring college students would give colleges 30 days discover of which district every youngster would attend.
O’Laughlin described the proposal Tuesday as a “tiny kind of schooling selection coverage.”
Plocher, who referred to the supply as “tax fairness enrollment,” stated he started pushing for the proposal after being requested by a farmer why they couldn’t ship their children to a college district they paid property taxes in. House owners of greater than 80 acres of agricultural land are presently permitted to ship their kids to a college district apart from the one they reside, however are topic to sure restrictions, like that 35% of the property is positioned within the district of selection.
“I help open enrollment,” Plocher stated. “I believe that’s a part of the entire package deal.”
I’m not notably certain who that is for, as a result of for people who lease and are of lower-income who don’t pay actual property tax, (they) wouldn’t be capable to make the most of such a factor. – Rep. Raychel Proudie, D-Ferguson
Regardless of issues raised on the Home ground in regards to the specificity of among the modification’s provisions — like limiting it to 4 children and the inclusion of “a named beneficiary of a belief” — it garnered help from throughout the aisle.
Rep. Paula Brown, D-Hazelwood, stated she believes it can assist taxpayers and never harm public schooling. Districts could lose college students who select to attend one other district, “but it surely’s one or two children, it’s not going to devastate a group,” Brown stated.
Most individuals don’t personal a number of items of property, Brown stated. Moreover, the invoice wouldn’t require faculty districts to supply transportation to transferring college students.
Multi-family properties that exceed 4 items can be excluded. Pollitt stated that was included to make sure somebody can’t purchase a parcel of land and promote small parts of it so folks may take benefit.
Rep. Raychel Proudie, D-Ferguson, stated in convention committee final week she had issues that the proposal would widen gaps for college kids in her space.
“I’m not notably certain who that is for, as a result of for people who lease and are of lower-income who don’t pay actual property tax, (they) wouldn’t be capable to make the most of such a factor. And I can foresee a de-facto segregation state of affairs with that,” Proudie stated of scholars leaving their districts.
Prices of the proposal are unknown, because it’s not clear what number of college students would switch underneath the provisions, in keeping with a fiscal evaluation of the invoice.
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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).
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- 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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