Tuesday, January 22, 2013
The Parkway School Board is considering delaying the review of the district's Early Retirement Incentive Plan while it waits for the Missouri State Legislature to make a decision on pensions.
The Parkway School Board is considering a delay in reviewing the district's early retirement incentive policy. The Parkway School District's current policy allows early retirment for teachers with between 25 and 31 years of credited service in the Missouri Public School Retirment System and at least 10 years with the Parkway School District. The program, in its current from, is set to expire in 2014 and is scheduled for review this year. However, according to district's CFO Mark Stockwell, the board is now considering delaying the review of the district's early retirment policy as it waits to see what the Missouri Legislature decides exactly about a clause in the state's teachers' retirement plan. "There's a section in the (state's) …
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Governor Jay Nixon signs repeals to the Missouri school social networking law, but says even the revised version has flaws. The law no longer prohibits teachers and students from communicating through some social networking outlets.
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon signed Senate Bill 1, which repeals a portion a state school social networking law passed, Senate Bill 54, by the General Assembly this spring. In August, Patch reported on the controversy and confusion surrounding Senate Bill 54, also known as the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act. It is sponsored by former Ladue school board member and Missouri State Senator Jane Cunningham (R-Chesterfield) and designed to protect students. The Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA) sued the state over ths social network portions of Senate Bill 54, claiming it was too vague. MSTA was awarded an injunction on Aug. 26, just two days before the new law was to take effect. Friday, that lawsuit and injunction are still in …
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Parkway School District Administrative Center
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Parkway South High School
801 Hanna Rd, Manchester, MO
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
The law's author and sponsor, Creve Coeur area State Senator Jane Cunningham calls the suit "hypocritical".
Gov. Jay Nixon and Attorney General Chris Koster are defendants in the lawsuit. Town and Country-Manchester Patch originally reported otherwise. We are sorry for the error. The Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA) filed suit against the state Friday to put the breaks on a portion of a law set to go into effect which critics say puts a cramp on how educators can use social media to communicate with students. Senate Bill 54, also known as the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act, was sponsored by Missouri State Senator Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, who represents parts of Creve Coeur. A main thrust of the bill was to make the law more clear about a school district's responsibilities when dealing with teachers accused of sexual …
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Parkway School District Administrative Center
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Ladue Horton Watkins High School
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Friday, June 17, 2011
Rep. Scott Dieckhaus, R-Washington and the chairman of the House Elementary and Secondary Education Committee, said there's no easy fix to Turner v. Clayton.
It's not easy to talk about. St. Louis-area students in unaccredited school districts aren't getting the education they deserve. Does that mean they should be able to attend accredited school districts in St. Louis County? Should those districts have a say in how many students they accept? It's an issue five area legislators and about 50 attendees tried to tackle in Thursday’s town hall meeting in Chesterfield. At the center of the discussion is Jane Turner v. School District of Clayton. The Missouri Supreme Court's July opinion in the case was that school districts are mandated to accept any student from an unaccredited district and have no say in the matter. In the St. Louis area, both the St. Louis Public School (SLPS) and Riverview …
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Chesterfield City Hall
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David Chiles
11:34 am on Saturday, August 20, 2011
Teachers who want to be friends with their students should not be teachers, it's bad netiquette, http://www.networketiquette.net The Missouri legislature has decided the role teachers should play in their students netiquette development and it's not as a friend, it's as a teacher. more ›