A new
joint legislative committee met Wednesday for the first time to study whether to recommend legislation to let previously merged school districts be divided.
The St. Louis school board and superintendent would become the first casualties of the transition to a new post-desegregation era in Missouri, under a plan endorsed by a
special joint legislative committee.
, the Counsel to
the Joint Legislative Committee on Re-Apportionment.
District officials, union leaders and advocacy groups lined up to testify before
a joint legislative committee examining spending for next year.
The Republican, who took office in 2003 and has announced he won't seek re-election this year, testified earlier this month before
a joint legislative committee on his school package, which he outlined again in his speech.
A joint legislative committee is studying whether to use a foundation formula to finance education in the state.