Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Missourians to vote on numerous measures

Signatures are being gathered around the state for measures that will be put on the November ballot, according to an article in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Among those measures: A proposal that would permit taxpayer money to go to private schools in the form of vouchers, a measure that would permit all embryonic stem cell research, and a proposal that would restore the Medicaid coverage that was eliminated last year.
Signatures are also being collected for a proposal to increase the state's minimum wage.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Randy, as a teacher of 35 years and now retired, I am not for vouchers as I find it hard to believe every one is capable to teach when the state requires certain qualifications to instruct children. I know there are parents maybe more qualified than I but there are many many more that are not. Most home-schooled children are those that a parent wants to protect from the public school as there are many things other than subject matter they learn in apublic school but I feel children so sheltered are like a wild animal raised in a protected environment and then when they are grown they are put back in the wilds to try to survive.