Columbia News Coverage of Our Education Conference

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By David Stokes | Read Time 1 minute

The Columbia Daily-Tribune and the Columbia Missourian both had excellent articles in today’s editions covering the conference sponsored by the Show-Me Institute yesterday, on educational adequacy lawsuits, school-choice initiatives, and much more. We would like to thank the legislators from both parties who attended, as well as the many other participants who joined us for a very interesting day.

The best line of the entire conference, as quoted by the Missourian

James Guthrie, an economist at Vanderbilt University, addressed this issue and said, “When the education system has consequences for adults when children don’t learn, only then will we see results.”

About the Author

David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from 2007 to 2016. From 2016 through 2020 he was Executive Director of Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, where he led efforts to oppose harmful floodplain developments done with abusive tax subsidies. Stokes rejoined the Institute in early 2021 as the Director of Municipal Policy. He is a past president of the University City Library Board. He served on the St. Louis County 2010 Council Redistricting Commission and was the 2012 representative to the Electoral College from Missouri’s First Congressional District. He lives in University City with his wife and their three children.

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