Jill Carter discusses Initiative Petition Reform and closing Severely Disabled schools

The Missouri Board of Education recently voted to close 12 Missouri Schools for the Severely Disabled by the end of this school year.

Missouri state senator Jill Carter told the KZRG Morning Newswatch, it’s a part of a plan to reorganize and improve services for students and families:

“So if we can privatize them and help those families be able to have those resources locally to where they’re not shipping their kids out further away from family, then hopefully it ends up being a good thing.” 

Carter went on to say this should not be any additional burden on the parents or students. 

Missouri Governor Kehoe has called a special session of the legislature with initiative petition reform being one of items worked on.

Missouri state senator Jill Carter says why this is so important:

“Generally speaking, if it’s a conservative issue Kansas City and St. Louis out, vote the rural population, which is the vast majority of Missouri. And so we’re trying to make sure that there’s an equal or a concurrent majority that’s determined from across the state. So to get to do that, we’re going to do that by congressional districts and say, you know what, there has to be a majority of congressional districts that say yes. So that’ll equalize that.”