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.”