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1998 Lower Ed. Stories

• 12/ 3/1998: Radio Story - Fifty students and the governor decorated the Capitol Christmas tree with home-made ornaments. But some of the kids had a better idea.
• 11/12/1998: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Board of Education approved a plan that would require graduating seniors to undergo exit testing for state endorsed diplomas.
• 5/15/1998: Newspaper Story - The legislature gave final approval to a desegregation bill proponents hope will end two decades of court-ordered payments to the St. Louis and Kansas City school districts.
• 5/15/1998: Newspaper Story - The Missouri General Assembly adjourned for the year. Highlights of bills it passed.
• 5/ 6/1998: Newspaper Story - Ex-convicts teaching in Missouri schools would lose their certificates under a bill passed Wednesday by the Missouri House.
• 5/ 5/1998: Newspaper Story - In a surprise move, Carnahan's early childhood care program became the first major measure to cleare the legislature.
• 5/ 4/1998: Radio Story - The bill is designed to resolve the St. Louis school desegregation case. The money would come from property or sales taxes in St. Louis
• 5/ 4/1998: Newspaper Story - Two of the governor's bills for children clear major hurdles in the legislature.
• 4/29/1998: Radio Story - A senior black legislator announces his opposition to the desegregation bill.
• 4/24/1998: Newspaper Story - The governor's plan to provide day care services at public schools in running into legislative trouble.
• 4/22/1998: Newspaper Story - Democrats fended off Republican attempts to separate desegregation money for St. Louis and Kansas City in the desegregation bill that passed the House Education Committee.
• 4/21/1998: Radio Story - The desegregation bill takes another step forward but the hired gun for the St. Louis City School Board says the bill still needs some work.
• 4/15/1998: Radio Story - State lawmakers spent hours debating whether parents whose children attend private high schools should be given a tax deduction.
• 4/15/1998: Newspaper Story - Opponents of a tax deduction for private school students unsuccessfully tried to remove it from the Senate's major tax-cut bill Wednesday.
• 4/15/1998: Radio Story - The settlement coordinator in the St. Louis school desegregation case testified in support of Senate-passed legislation.
• 4/15/1998: Radio Story - St. Louis City School Board Members came out to defend their reputation at a state House Education Committee hearing of the Senate's desegregation bill.
• 4/14/1998: Radio Story - The NAACP urges lawmakers to change the bill passed by the Senate to settle the court-ordered school desegregation case.
• 4/ 8/1998: Newspaper Story - High school enrollment would needed to get a driver's license under legislation before Missouri's General Assembly.
• 4/ 8/1998: Radio Story - Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved the amendment that would allow local school districts to seek voter approval for more bonds.
• 4/ 7/1998: Radio Story - While the state Senate was passing the desegregation bill, the governor endorsed a provision to give him a bigger voice over St. Louis city schools.
• 4/ 7/1998: Newspaper Story - Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved two constitutional amendments Tuesday that supporters say will improve the quality of public schools.
• 4/ 2/1998: Newspaper Story - Constitutional Amendment 3 would allow the Kansas City school board to raise the school levy without a vote of the Kansas City residents.
• 4/ 1/1998: Radio Story - The Senate approved a provision of the desegregation bill that would allow parents living in Kansas City and St. Louis' urban districts to send their children to charter schools.
• 4/ 1/1998: Newspaper Story - A plan to entice a settlement in the St. Louis desegregation case is approved by the Senate.
• 3/31/1998: Radio Story - Missouri would get 25 million dollars for school transportation under an amendment added to the Senate desegregation bill.
• 3/24/1998: Newspaper Story - The Senate got into the details of day care in public schools. Many questions are still left unanswered.
• 3/10/1998: Newspaper Story - The Senate gives first-round approval to an alternative to mandating English has an official language.
• 3/10/1998: Radio Story - The Senate votes to establish grants for English-language education programs.
• 3/ 5/1998: Newspaper Story - The Senate Education Committee passed a bill that would allow charter schools to be established in any school district in the state.
• 3/ 3/1998: Newspaper Story - The House Education Committee passed a bill to allow charter schools in St. Louis and Kansas City, rejecting an attempt to lift education regulations for all school districts.
• 2/27/1998: Newspaper Story - Plan to provide state-funded preschool in public schools is proposed in Missouri's legislature.
• 2/27/1998: Newspaper Story - Witnesses testify for and against making Missouri the 31st state with charter school legislation on its books.
• 2/22/1998: Newspaper Story - Another battle over tax breaks for private school costs in looming in Missouri's legislature.
• 2/20/1998: Newspaper Story - Riverboat gambling lawsuits are threatening funding for the governor's day-care program.
• 2/20/1998: Newspaper Story - Teachers added to collective bargaining for public workers.
• 2/19/1998: Newspaper Story - Gov. Carnahan continues his criticism of the desegregation funding bill before the Senate -- calling it too expensive.
• 2/19/1998: Radio Story - Governor Carnahan says he still doesn't like the desegregation bill narrowly passed by the Senate Education Committee Wednesday.
• 2/18/1998: Newspaper Story - The Senate Education Committee reverses itself and passes a school-desegregation funding bill, after tacking on extra funds for non-city schools.
• 2/17/1998: Radio Story - Governor Mel Carnahan's hails House passage of a bill to use gambling money to fund day care services by public schools.
• 2/17/1998: Radio Story - Missouri's governor is criticizing the school desegretation plan stalled in the Senate Education Committee.
• 2/17/1998: Newspaper Story - The House approves a means to fund a component of Mel Carnahan's program for daycare services at public schools.
• 2/12/1998: Radio Story - Teachers convicted of serious felonies would be automatically expelled from their classrooms, under a bill the House gave preliminary approval to.
• 2/12/1998: Newspaper Story - A controversial $1,000 extra in funding for pupils in the St. Louis and Kansas City schools plus the governor's invisibility on the desegregation issue helped contribute to the bill's defeat.
• 2/12/1998: Radio Story - The Senate Education Committee votes down a proposal to guarantee more funds to St. Louis schools in an effort to end court-ordered desegregation.
• 2/11/1998: Newspaper Story - A House committee cuts the governor's proposed funding for software to keep Internet porn away from school children.
• 2/10/1998: Newspaper Story - Appeals by the St. Louis school desegregation settlement coordinator fails to budget rural opposition to the desegregtion bill.
• 2/ 5/1998: Radio Story - Summer school for those who flunk school in St. Louis was proposed to the Senate Education Committee as part of the deseg bill.
• 2/ 4/1998: Radio Story - A stipulation that would allow the St. Louis Mayor to pick the School Board is part of a settlement being negotiated in the desegregation case.
• 2/ 4/1998: Newspaper Story - Suburban school superintendents whose districts don't get any desegregation funds told the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday that their schools needs attention, too.
• 2/ 4/1998: Radio Story - Tempers flared at the Capitol Wednesday as legislators and educators debated whether to give city schools an extra $1,000 per child.
• 2/ 3/1998: Radio Story - St. Louis County Senator Anita Yeckel introduced a bill that would make behavior and staying in school a factor in whether minors can get a driver's license.
• 2/ 2/1998: Radio Story - Expanded daycare programs were promoted by Missouri's first lady in her first-ever appearance before a legislative committee.
• 2/ 2/1998: Newspaper Story - In her first appearance before a legislative committee, he wife of Missouri's governor urged passage of a plan to offer daycare servicees at local schools.
• 1/29/1998: Radio Story - Missouri lawmakers hear it will take a pile of cash to get the federal court out of the St. Louis school system.
• 1/28/1998: Radio Story - Senators in the Ways and Mean committee debate whether it is constitutional for the state to give tax cuts for religious purposes, but not for tuition for religious schools.
• 1/28/1998: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers were told by a federal court mediator that the state will have to spend more money to end court-ordered school desegregation.
• 1/27/1998: Radio Story - A compromise offered during a House committee meeting proposes that school boards be able to pick their start dates, as long as the Friday before Labor Day is a holiday.
• 1/27/1998: Newspaper Story - Opponents argue government-funded programs at public schools would be unfair competition for private day care centers.
• 1/21/1998: Radio Story - Governor Carnahan wants funding for Missouri schools to purchase software that regulates Internet use.
• 1/21/1998: Newspaper Story - Carnahan said his proposal would help schools purchase software that would block kids from accessing "inappropriate sites." Some are critical of the effectiveness of that software.
• 1/20/1998: Newspaper Story - Sen. John Russell introduced his bill to require teenagers under 18 to be currently enrolled in high school, have a diploma or a GED certificate to obtain a driver's license.
• 1/20/1998: Radio Story - A House bill would require Missouri students to remain in school until age 18 or lose their driver's licenses.
• 1/19/1998: Radio Story - The debate over Missouri's state language hinges on one word. English as the "official" state language has fizzled in past bills, but a new proposal calls it the "common" language. Missourians voiced their concerns to lawmakers.
• 1/16/1998: Newspaper Story - The governor proposes a $56 million package to expand daycare services.
• 1/13/1998: Newspaper Story - Power to choose the people who set Missouri's secondary education agenda would shift from the governor to the voters under a plan presented by Missouri House Republicans.
• 1/13/1998: Newspaper Story - Missouri's governor will propose funds for local schools to provide daycare services for working parents.
• 1/13/1998: Radio Story - House Repubicans propose giving voters the power to elect the state's Board of Education.
• 1/ 5/1998: Newspaper Story - Drugs, taxes & term limits dominate the 1998 legislative session that begins on the same day a former House speaker goes to prison.