Funding

Governor Jay Nixon (D) wants to move Missouri’s universities and community colleges back to a performance-based funding model.It would mark a return to…

Missouri’s top K-12 education official is giving lawmakers mixed grades on the just-completed legislative session.Department of Elementary and Secondary…

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation allowing the use of $189 million in federal education money to fill shortfalls in state funding.Nixon…

The Missouri Senate has passed a funding plan for public schools as it begins debate on a $23 billion proposed budget.A Senate budget bill approved…

Missouri's transportation director says the state is nearing a crisis in highway funding and may have to turn away federal dollars unless it comes up with…

Updated 3:29 p.m. March 15, 2011 with information from committee meeting.A Missouri House committee has opted not to try to increase funding for school…

Questions are being raised after St. Louis' Paideia Academy closed and kept nearly a half-million dollars in leftover money.Missouri education officials…

The Federal Election Commission says Missouri Democrat Robin Carnahan can set up a legal defense fund to help cover $85,000 of costs from a copyright…

A state House member wants to amend the Missouri Constitution to let parents receive public funding to send children to religious schools.The proposal by…

Governor Jay Nixon (D) has released an additional $10 million withheld from school bus funding for Missouri's public schools this year.Nixon initially…