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Governor:Jeremiah Nixon
Commissioner of Education:Chris L. Nicastro
Quality Counts state grade:C-
Pre-K-12 enrollment:918,710
Number of school districts:562
Number of public schools:2,410
Number of public school teachers:66,735
Unadjusted education spending per student:$9,721
Percent minority students:25.3%
Percent of students eligible for free/reduced price lunch:44.2%
Percent of students with disabilities:13.8%
Percent of English-language learners:2.4%
NAEP Mathematics 2011 percent proficient
4th grade math:41.4%
8th grade math:31.5%
NAEP Reading 2011 percent proficient
4th grade reading:34.0%
8th grade reading:35.2%

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Wrapping up its current session last week, the Missouri legislature approved a bill that requires all students finishing teacher-education programs and seeking high-school certification to be tested in the disciplines they will teach.
May 9, 1984 - Education Week
The Missouri State Board of Education has formally adopted an "Action Plan for Excellence" that it devised in conjunction with officials of the state department of education.
March 28, 1984 - Education Week
Advocates of home education in Missouri told legislators last month that new guidelines adopted by the state's Division of Family Services discriminate against them.

The guidelines say that when complaints of "educational neglect" are brought to the attention of social-service workers, the family-services agency must relay the matter to a juvenile court "so that a determination can be made as to whether such education is substantially equivalent to that provided locally."

February 8, 1984 - Education Week
The Missouri State Board of Education late last month approved a measure that will require that all students pass every part of the state's Basic Essential Skills Test (best) to receive credit for 9th-grade courses needed for high-school graduation.
November 9, 1983 - Education Week
The U.S. Justice Department told a federal appeals court last week that a federal district judge may have overstepped legal bounds by ordering the state of Missouri to fund a substantial portion of the St. Louis area's voluntary desegregation plan.
October 26, 1983 - Education Week
Testimony has concluded in a federal district-court challenge in Missouri to the government's practice of providing Chapter 1 (formerly Title I) funds for remedial instruction at private parochial schools.
February 2, 1983 - Education Week
Only a last-minute parliamentary maneuver saved a hike in cigarette taxes that will provide an estimated $26 million for Missouri's public schools in 1982-83.
May 12, 1982 - Education Week
The size of the college of education at the University of Missouri-Columbia, the largest supplier of teachers in the state, would be reduced dramatically under a universitywide consolidation plan proposed by Provost Ronald F. Bunn.
May 5, 1982 - Education Week

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