Can Missouri really afford to undermine this program? Do Missouri lawmakers need a road map to see the connection? Go ahead: ask for and spend as many millions as you can get for those \u201clow-performing schools,\u201d (whatever that means). Fix the buildings. Hire and train more teachers. Increase teachers’ salaries. Undoubtedly, there will be more testing, too. But without the evidence-proven benefits of Parents as Teachers, those efforts could prove to be too little, too late. All that money may achieve very little if the kids in those schools\u2014and their parents\u2014have missed out on the early-childhood developmental milestones and opportunities that are so critical to successful learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looked at side-by-side, two recent news story create a contradictory picture that underscores the ironic and misguided path educational funding in Missouri is about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,119],"tags":[367,370,54],"yoast_head":"\n