COLUMN: Education commissioner gives Missouri a crucial warning

Thursday, February 4, 2010 | 11:54 a.m. CST; updated 10:38 a.m. CDT, Wednesday, May 12, 2010

I’ve never been quite sure what the Coordinating Board for Higher Education actually does. It doesn’t seem to have much real authority, and its coordinating efforts for 35 years certainly haven’t prevented the mushrooming growth of colleges at nearly every crossroads in the state.

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