The sponsor, Rep. Tishaura Jones, D-St. Louis City, said her bill would give superintendents the ability to be innovative and try something different. Jones' bill expands charter schools to any unaccredited school district as well as districts that have been provisionally accredited for a minimum of three years. Currently, Missouri has two unaccredited school districts, St. Louis City and Riverview Gardens, and nine provisionally accredited districts across the state.
Stem cells from umbilical cord blood “can be used to treat almost 80 diseases, including different forms of leukemia, bone-marrow failure syndromes and sickle-cell anemia,” the bill's sponsor - Rep. Tishaura Jones, D-St Louis - who told the Senate committee how she donated cord blood after giving birth.
One St. Louis City Representative Tishaura Jones sponsors a bill that would allow charter schools anywhere in the state and expand who is eligible to sponsor a charter school.
Rep. Tishaura Jones, D-St. Louis City, sponsored the bill, which would allow school districts outside of Kansas City and St. Louis City to create charter schools.
Missouri takes the highest rate of homicides among African Americans and Representative Tishaura Jones says gun laws are to blame. Becky May has more from Jefferson City.
The bipartisan group included two St. Louis Democrats, Rep. Jamilah Nasheed and Rep.Tishaura Jones, who joined the call to reform education. Nasheed said it was "an indictment on society" to continue letting Missouri's schools operate in their current state.
St. Louis City Representative Tishaura Jones sponsors a bill that would allow charter schools anywhere in the state and expand who is eligible to sponsor a charter school.
St. Louis City Representative Tishaura Jones sponsors a bill that would allow charter schools anywhere in the state and expand who is eligible to sponsor a charter school.
Rep. Tishaura Jones, D-St. Louis City, sponsored the bill, which would allow school districts outside of Kansas City and St. Louis City to create charter schools.
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