YES on 5 is the SOLUTION to Improving Early-Childhood Literacy in Missouri

YES on 5 is the SOLUTION to Improving Early-Childhood Literacy in Missouri

Studies have shown that for every dollar spent on early-childhood education, three to seven dollars are saved on social services through things like reduced teen pregnancy, improved graduation rates, and reduced incarceration rates.

Amendment 5 will allow for a new casino and resort destination on the Osage River at the Lake of the Ozarks. All state tax revenues from the new casino complex – estimated at $14 million annually – are constitutionally required to go directly to early-childhood literacy programs in public schools. That represents a 53% increase in funding over current levels of a little over $27 million and would become the first constitutionally-required, dedicated, annual funding stream for early-childhood literacy programs in Missouri.