State Education Board can eliminate failing school districts
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State Education Board can eliminate failing school districts

Date: February 26, 2014
By: Christina Turner
State Capitol Bureau

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Missouri lawmakers voted to give the State Board of Education power to shut down failing school districts.
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Wrap: A Senate plan would give the State Board of Education power to eliminate failing school districts if the districts cannot afford to survive through the school year.

Columbia Republican Senator Kurt Schaeffer introduced the amendment.

He said the state should stop districts from starting in the fall if it does not appear they can pay their way through summer.

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Description: "Take action at that point so these kids don't get caught with six weeks left, they don't know where they're going to graduate from, and somebody comes in and asks us for five more million dollars of general revenue."

The amendment is part of a plan aiming to help failing school districts.

Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Christina Santiago.

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Missouri senators voted to give the State Board of Education power to eliminate failing school districts like Normandy in St. Louis County.
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Wrap: If a failing school district cannot afford to keep its doors open through the end of the school year, the Senate plan would let the State Board of Education shut the district down.

Columbia Republican Senator Kurt Schaefer sponsored the amendment.

He said it prevents situations like Normandy where the district came to lawmakers asking for extra money to survive until summer.

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Description: "I am moving that crisis point sooner. So, not when we're 500 feet before impact in the train wreck, but when we're five miles down teh road and we know there's a stalled truck on the track."

The amendment is part of a proposal aiming to help failing school districts.

Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Christina Santiago.