- Introduced -

SB 948 - This act requires the Missouri National Guard to establish a pilot program of public grade school instruction using military methods. The program shall be established in collaboration with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The National Guard may collaborate with any federal agency involved in national defense in establishing the program.

The program may include and emphasize appropriate role model examples, adventure training, codes of conduct, policies on discipline and such other elements as the national guard deems appropriate.

The program shall be for students in grades lower than ninth grade. Students may apply to attend the program, and the National Guard may provide for admitting students assigned to the program by juvenile courts and state agencies. The National Guard shall establish entrance standards for students applying to enter the program.

The "National Guard Pilot Instruction Program Fund" is created and shall be used to fund the program. The Fund may receive any grants, gifts, donations and appropriations for establishing and operating the program.

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