Show-me Institute Podcast

Corey A. DeAngelis is the director of school choice at Reason Foundation and an adjunct scholar at Cato Institute. Follow Corey on twitter @DeAngelisCorey Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

David Stokes is the Executive Director of the Great Rivers Habitat Alliance (GRHA):http://grha.org/ Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Missouri recently received its latest grades on “The Nation’s Report Card,” (an assessment given to 4th- and 8th-graders in each state every two years by the U.S. Department of Education), and the news isn’t good. Read more from Dr. Susan Pendergrass: https://bit.ly/2PxRbgD James V. Shuls is an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis and Distinguished Fellow in Education Policy at the Show-Me Institute. His work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Phi Delta Kappan, Social Science Quarterly, Education Week, The Rural Educator, Educational Policy, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Learn more about the Show-Me Institue: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Learn more about Virginia's new book School Choice: A Legacy to Keep: https://www.amazon.com/School-Choice-Virginia-Walden-Ford/dp/0825309395/ Watch the trailer for MISS VIRGINIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mELLiJrYB5U Virginia Walden Ford is one of America’s leading advocates for parent empowerment. As a student, a mother, an advocate, and a grandmother, Virginia has spent her life fighting to create new educational opportunities for children and families. Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

More information on Andrew's upcoming book - The School Choice Roadmap: 7 Steps to Finding the Right School for Your Child - https://amzn.to/2qCJnla Andrew Campanella has served as president of National School Choice Week since 2012. Andrew is also the author of the forthcoming book The School Choice Roadmap: 7 Steps to Finding the Right School for Your Child, which offers practical advice to parents in navigating the process of exploring their options and choosing the best fit for their families. More information can be found at schoolchoiceroadmap.com Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Crosby Kemper III is executive director of the Kansas City Public Library; the Chair of the Schools, Health, Libraries, and Broadband (SHLB) coalition; and former CEO of UMB Financial Corporation. He co-founded and is chairman of the Show-Me Institute. Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

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Segment from Pete Mundo Mornings on KCMO-AM, Kansas City, MO Listen live here: www.kcmotalkradio.com/ Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: showmeinstitute.org/

Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ Learn more about R Street Institute: https://www.rstreet.org/ Shoshana Weissmann manages the Institute’s social media and email marketing, in addition to contributing graphics and video skills. She also works on occupational licensing reform and other issues, and has written for various publications, including The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Shoshana most recently managed digital communications for Opportunity Lives, a group that highlighted positive stories and policy solutions. Before that, she managed social media and wrote for The Weekly Standard. Earlier in her career, she managed digital communications for the America Rising PAC, where her strategy was highlighted in a piece that appeared in The New York Times. The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Segment from The Marc Cox Morning Show-KFTK, St. Louis, MO Listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/31PCRFM Patrick Tuohey is the Director of Municipal Policy at the Show-Me Institute: https://bit.ly/2m5L8ER The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a great piece by Jacob Barker on an effort by the city of Wentzville to partner with a private developer to finance and build a rec center it has long wanted. The outrage is that the private firm is connected to Stan Kroenke, owner of the St. Louis Los Angeles Rams, perhaps the most hated man in the St. Louis region. The rest of the piece catalogues the standard objections to special taxing districts, which in this case is a Community Improvement District (CID). They include: unfair taxation, developer subsidies, a blight finding so that the developer is even less constrained in spending the CID funds, and the lack of transparency in the tax collection and spending. While everything in the Post-Dispatch story is true, none of it is unique. Kroenke’s involvement may ma

Segment from The Gary Nolan Show on 93.9 The Eagle, Columbia, MO Listen to the full show here:https://939theeagle.com/the-gary-nolan-show/ Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/

Read Dr. Biggs' article in The Hill:https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/448431-401ks-can-fill-the-pension-gap Andrew G. Biggs is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies Social Security reform, state and local government pensions, and public sector pay and benefits. Before joining AEI, Biggs was the principal deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), where he oversaw SSA’s policy research efforts. In 2005, as an associate director of the White House National Economic Council, he worked on Social Security reform. In 2001, he joined the staff of the President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security. Biggs has been interviewed on radio and television as an expert on retirement issues and on public vs. private sector compensation. He has published widely in academic publications as well as in daily newspapers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He has also testified before Congress on numerous occasions. I

Read the full report on Missouri school performance data here: https://showmeinstitute.org/publication/accountability/report-missouris-report-card-and-essa-requirements The 2015 federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) includes a requirement intended to keep parents informed about the quality of the schools their children attend: States must produce “report cards” on their performance at the state, district, and local levels. The ESSA lists the data that must be included, so in theory, parents and other stakeholders can learn where a school or district is doing well and where improvement is needed. In this report, Abigail Burrola and Dr. Susan Pendergrass compare the report cards issued by Missouri’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to the specific requirements listed in the ESSA to see if the state is meeting its obligations. Unfortunately, we find that not all of the required information is included in the report cards, and some of the data that can be found is couched in jargon an

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Segment from Pete Mundo Mornings on KCMO-AM, Kansas City listen live here: www.kcmotalkradio.com/ Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: showmeinstitute.org/

On August 28, 2019, the Show-Me Institute filed suit against Missouri’s Office of Administration for violating the state’s Sunshine Law. Government entities may think they can get away with these excuses because too few citizens are able to invest the time money and emotional energy required to pursue a legal fight to keep these government entities transparent and accountable. We have determined that this case is a crucial opportunity to ensure equality in government transparency for all Missourians. Learn more about the case: https://bit.ly/2ZwsO5O Learn more about the Freedom Center of Missouri:http://www.mofreedom.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Dr. Evers Op-ed: https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-wants-to-teach-your-kids-that-capitalism-is-racist-11564441342 Williamson M. Evers, is currently a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in research on education policy especially as it pertains to curriculum, teaching, testing, accountability, and school finance. Evers was head of the “agency action team” for the U.S. Department of Education in the Trump transition from early September 2016 through January 2017. He was the US assistant secretary of education for planning, evaluation, and policy development from 2007 to 2009. From July to December 2003, Evers served in Iraq as a senior adviser for education to Administrator L. Paul Bremer of the Coalition Provisional Authority and ran, with colleagues, the K-12 system in that country. He was a member of the Hoover Institution’s Koret Task Force on K-12 Education from its beginning in 1999 until it wrapped up in 2014. Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.

Dr. Susan Pendergrass and Ray Hartmann discuss the big business of subsidies for sports teams in St. Louis. Ray's column: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/as-the-blues-score-another-fat-public-subsidy-the-scorecard-is-clear-taxpayers-lose/Content?oid=31941081 Ray Hartmann is an independent journalist and entrepreneur. He has appeared weekly as a panelist on the Nine Network of Public Media’s political roundtable “Donnybrook” since the show’s inception in 1987. (The show has the highest ratings of any locally produced PBS show in the nation.) Ray also writes a weekly column for the RiverFront Times. Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Segment from Pete Mundo Mornings on KCMO-AM, Kansas City listen live here: www.kcmotalkradio.com/ Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: showmeinstitute.org/

Segment from Pete Mundo Mornings on KCMO-AM, Kansas City listen live here: www.kcmotalkradio.com/ Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: showmeinstitute.org/