MoASSP Priorities
SCHOOL FUNDING: Ensuring adequate and equitable funding for Missouri’s public schools is paramount, enabling us to meet state and federal program requirements and support the growth of our educators, benefiting students, communities, and the state.
SCHOOL GOVERNANCE: Missouri’s educational goals thrive in a system where elected community representatives have the authority to shape teaching and learning policies.
SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS: We recognize that educating students is a shared journey where schools, communities, and families come together to build and strengthen meaningful relationships.
MoASSP Advocacy 2024
Advocacy 2024
MoASSP 2025 Resolutions
Adopted by the MoASSP Board of Directors: September 30, 2024
School Funding
Supports…
- Fully funding the Foundation Formula and Transportation so that: Districts can implement programs to meet state and federal mandates; Districts can provide for student service programs; Districts can establish and maintain the necessary training and ongoing professional development for the growth of school personnel.
- Increasing efforts to address the difficulty of Missouri school leaders to fill staff teaching positions and offer recommendations (increased teacher pay, grow your own programs, pathways to certification, etc.) will help ensure that highly prepared and effective teachers teach each student.
- Resources that promote student and school personnel mental health, wellness, and safety.
- The General Assembly will review tax credits, incremental financing programs, and tax abatements to preserve public school revenues.
- Resources that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion for students, school personnel, and communities.
- The General Assembly to fund a college and career readiness test (ACT, WorkKeys).
School Governance
Supports…
- Local control (enrollment, school personnel, equitable assessment and continuous school improvement and accreditation, calendar, scheduling, curriculum, discipline, wellness, safety, etc.).
- The same accountability standards for charter/virtual schools as public schools.
- Missouri Learning Standards.
- Amending Chapter 213, RSMo to eliminate claims of liability filed against individual employees and school board members when named parties in an employment action.
- PSRS/PEERS being the sole provider for the Public School and Education Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri.
- Maintaining a minimum 2.55 multiplier for PSRS members with 31 years of service or more.
- The Missouri State High School Activities Association‘s governance by its member school districts.
- School principal contracts that incorporate safeguards, including a fair evaluation process, and calls upon the General Assembly to pass a state statute to ensure these protections.
School Partnerships
Supports…
- NASSP and NAESP continue to co-sponsor the National Principals Conference.
- Promoting the protection of children and youth by ceasing the marketing and sale of tobacco and electronic nicotine delivery systems.
2024 Missouri Education Related Bills
SB 756
SB 727
Creates and modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education
