COTTLEVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A roving panel of Missouri lawmakers started a three-day, statewide fact-finding trip on education policy in a suburban St. Louis school district where hundreds of students from a failing district are being bussed to better-performing schools up to 30 miles away.
The 17 members of the interim House Committee on Education who attended the Monday afternoon meeting at St. Charles Community College heard from superintendents, school choice advocates, local school board members and parent activists. The advance agenda listed eight topics, but the interconnected issues of costly school transfers and failing schools were clearly on the minds of most in the room.
The legislators were encouraged to seek a long-term fix to what those providing public testimony called a short-term solution that came to a head over the summer after a state Supreme Court ruling triggered the exodus of nearly 2,600 students from the unaccredited Normandy and Riverview Gardens districts...
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