Gov. Nixon issued the following statement regarding Education Week’s 2013 Diploma’s Count report showing Missouri with the 8th highest graduation rate in the country. According to the report, over 80 percent of Missouri high school students graduated with a regular diploma in 2010, up 9.5 percent from 2000. This is the second year the state has been in the top 10 and the fourth consecutive year the state’s graduation rate has increased.
Missouri is one of six “Best Practices” states in transparency and evaluation of the economic impacts of incentive programs, according to Investment Consulting Associates. ICA assessed all 50 states on their ... Read More
A survey ranks Kansas City as a top 10 city to launch a high-tech career, PC magazine reports. According to the survey, a major selling point for the Kansas City region ... Read More
Missouri has ranked fourth in the number of clean jobs in the first quarter of 2014. The state was recognized by the Environmental Entrepreneurs Group or E2, which is a nonprofit ... Read More
Kansas City was named as one of the top 12 cities with best practices for small business development in a May 2014 report by the National League of Cities. “Kansas City ... Read More
Gov. Jay Nixon today joined officials from Ag-Power to break ground on the company’s new facility in Higginsville. After Ag-Power’s previous facility in Higginsville was destroyed in a fire in March, ... Read More
American Air Filter International (AAF) unveiled its new “cleanroom” Thursday. AAF CEO Peter Kurto was among the speakers at the event that announced 24 new jobs would be created with the ... Read More
Gov. Jay Nixon today joined Kansas City Mayor Sly James, the Spanish Ambassador to America, Ramón Gil-Casares Satrústegui, and community leaders to cut the ribbon on Grupo Antolin’s new manufacturing facility ... Read More
The 2014 MoneyRates.com Best and Worst States for Banking study highlights Missouri as the top state for banking in the U.S., based on the state’s top-10 survey rankings for customer service, ... Read More
Looking for the biggest bargain in higher education? I think I found it in this rural Missouri town, 40 miles south of Springfield, nestled in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. ... Read More
The American Academy of Family Physicians has awarded the University of Missouri School of Medicine with a Top 10 Award for its family and community medicine program. This is the second ... Read More