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Weekly Update — 04/10/26
Many of Aligned’s priority bills become law This originally appeared in Aligned’s weekly newsletter. Want future updates in your inbox? Sign up today. As lawmakers returned to Topeka for the final days of session, several of Aligned’s priority bills ranging across…
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Missouri Teacher Workforce Series: Part 1
Rising Novices, Growing Veterans, and a Shrinking Middle Missouri’s teacher workforce is not as stable as it looks. This first report in Aligned’s Missouri Teacher Workforce Series examines how the composition of the state’s educator workforce has shifted over the…
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Weekly Update — 04/03/26
This originally appeared in Aligned’s weekly newsletter. Want future updates in your inbox? Sign up today. After months of major design questions, members of the Missouri School Funding Modernization Task Force began to converge on key design choices that will…
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Missouri’s Teacher Supply Hourglass: Why the Missing Middle Matters
This blog provides an overview of Aligned’s Missouri’s Classroom Teacher Experience Series, a three-part analysis examining how shifts in experience, placement, and credentials are reshaping the state’s educator pipeline. Over the next three weeks, we will release the full reports…
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Missouri education is entering a period of significant change. That makes the search for the state’s next Commissioner of Education more than a personnel decision. It is a decision about who will le…
Check out Aligned CEO, Torree Pederson’s thoughts on the next Missouri Ed Commissioner.
Missouri should take the time to get its next education commissioner right • Missouri Independent
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Missouri education is entering a period of significant change. That makes the search for the state’s next Commissioner of Education more than a personnel decision. It is a decision about who will le…
We are excited to announce our third webinar in the 2026 Webinar Series: Kansas School Finance.
Kansas is about to make one of its biggest education decisions in years. The current school finance formula expires in 2027, giving lawmakers a chance to make the system clearer, more predictable, and more connected to student need.
Join us for a plain-language conversation on what is ahead.
Register today and be part of the conversation.
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Congratulations to Brandy Lane, USD 265-Eisenhower Middle School USD 265-Goddard Public Schools for being named 2027 Kansas Teacher of the Year!
Read more here: www.ksde.gov/news-center/news-releases/2026/09/20/goddard-english-language-arts-educator-named-20…
