Education is not a privilege or an option; it is a fundamental right. The Missouri Right to Education Initiative will guarantee every child in Missouri access to adequate, thorough, and uniform free public schools. It puts that promise in our state constitution, making it clear that education is not negotiable. It’s a right.
Parents, guardians, and teachers show up every day for Missouri’s kids. It’s time the state did, too.
This initiative protects your child’s right to the highest quality education regardless of where you live in the state. It is a constitutional commitment to every teacher and every student, so classrooms can be places where education rights are made real.
Lottery proceeds legally mandated for education (1992)
Lift casino loss limits, raise tax to 21%, to fund education (2008)
10% tax on gambling profits, earmarked for education. (2024)
The Right to Education Initiative ensures that education funding goes where it belongs:
to Missouri’s public schools and the students they serve.
Be it resolved by the people of the state of Missouri that the Constitution be amended:
Art. IX, Sec. 1(a) of the Constitution is amended to read as follows:
A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people,; education shall be a fundamental right. It shall be the duty of the state and general assembly shall to establish and maintain adequate, thorough, and uniform high quality free public schools to provide for the gratuitous instruction of all persons in this state within ages not in excess of twenty-one years as prescribed by law.
Nearly 200 Missouri school districts have moved to four-day weeks because they don’t have the resources they need. Four-day weeks aren’t enough. Our kids deserve a full education, and we need real, consistent investment in their future.
We’ve said it with our votes. Now, we will say it in the constitution.
Let’s put our kids’ future in writing.
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