Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-St. Louis County, says the results are unacceptable. A St. Louis public education official says the annual performance reports are only indicators aimed at improving districts and are not causes for concern.
The Senate voted 30-2 to pass the second joint resolution, with Sens. Frank Barnitz, D-Spring Lake, and Jane Cunningham, R-St. Louis County, voting against the joint resolution.
As previously reported, Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, said on Wednesday that while she agreed the two boards should be combined, doing so would cause chaos for Missouri's education system. Cunningham did not speak on the issue Thursday.
Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-St. Louis County, actively stalled the legislation from reaching a vote. She said resolution would threaten the level of experience in members of the state's existing boards.
Wrap: St. Louis County Republican Senator Jane Cunningham's bill would require school districts to create a written policy covering teacher-student communications.
Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-St. Louis County, who sponsored the resolution, said the health care reform bill was an encroachment of federal authority on states' rights and Missouri needed to assert itself. She added that the system was reminiscent of the nationalized health systems in Canada and Western Europe.
Shields said he worked with the sponsor, Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, to alter some of the language of the resolution to clarify the language. He agreed that the issue of health care reform should be left to the states instead of "one-size-fits-all" legislation from the federal level.
"I just can't imagine a woman making a statement like that," Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-St. Louis County, said of a woman going through with an abortion after viewing an ultrasound.
Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-St. Louis County, says the results are unacceptable. A St. Louis public education official says the annual performance reports are only indicators aimed at improving districts and are not causes for concern.
Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-St. Louis County, says the results are unacceptable. A St. Louis public education official says the annual performance reports are only indicators aimed at improving districts and are not causes for concern.