In a victory for Missouri’s school districts and their affiliated career centers, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) today announced that the U.S. Education Department has notified Missouri superintendents that they will not be required to undergo the costly and burdensome process of changing their accounting practices in order to continue being eligible for Title IV federal financial aid. Read more »

U.S. Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) is encouraging high school students in the 9th Congressional District to consider attending the nation’s military academies in order to serve our country. Read more »

As a longtime supporter of local control in our schools and a staunch opponent of the government’s interference in our daily lives, I am greatly bothered by the federal Department of Education’s confusing, costly and totally unnecessary requirement to compel affected Missouri school districts to convert their entire accounting systems. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) today voted in favor of H.R. 4628, the Interest Rate Reduction Act, to extend current interest rates on student loans for one year. This bill will prevent interest rates from increasing on July 1, 2012, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on new federally subsidized Stafford Loans to undergraduate students. In 2007, Congress enacted a law that would double student loan interest rates starting in 2012. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) today met with Gov. Jay Nixon in Jefferson City seeking support for the Congressman’s call for a “complete fix” to a confusing and unnecessary federal requirement that would compel up to 29 Missouri school districts to convert their entire accounting systems. Read more »

With as many as 29 Missouri school districts and their affiliated career centers facing the threat of higher costs due to confusing, unnecessary federal accounting requirements, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) met face-to-face this week with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and called for a “complete fix” to the requirement that would compel entire school districts to convert their entire accounting systems because of an affiliated career center. Read more »

The last place we need the federal government is in our classrooms. Unfortunately, it has become increasingly clear that President Obama’s Department of Education is intent on imposing its will on our institutions of learning, whether K-12 or higher education. Like many 9th-district residents, I believe education is a state and local issue. The federal government can play a supporting… Read more »

Concerned about the adverse effects of federal overreach into historically state and academic issues, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) today voted in favor of legislation that would overturn two federal regulations pertaining to higher education that, if left in place, could lead to increased tuition costs for students. Read more »

Frustrated by the U.S. Department of Education's failure to undertstand the impact on Missouri career and technical schools of costly federal accounting requirements that conflict with existing state standards, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) has Read more »