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Position Statement on Kansas City Public School District Reform

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After observ­ing Kansas City Public School Board Meetings for nearly four years, spend­ing much time in the schools, and advo­cat­ing mea­sures to improve the per­for­mance of the exist­ing dis­trict (includ­ing an appointed board) we have con­cluded that the only viable approach to pro­vid­ing the district’s chil­dren the qual­ity of edu­ca­tion they deserve is to replace the […]

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Missouri State Senators and Representatives from the Kansas City Area

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A .pdf ver­sion of this list is also avail­able for down­load. Missouri State Senators Dist. First Last Email Phone 11 Victor Callahan Victor_Callahan@senate.mo.gov 573–751‑3074 10 Jolie Justus Jolie.Justus@senate.mo.gov 573–751‑2788 8 Will Kraus Will.Kraus@senate.mo.gov 573–751‑1464 31 David Pearce David.Pearce@senate.mo.gov 573–751‑2272 17 Luann Ridgeway Luann.Ridgeway@senate.mo.gov 573–751‑2547 34 Rob Schaaf Rob.Schaaf@senate.mo.gov 573–751‑2183 Missouri State Representatives Dist. First Last […]

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To Our Friends Who Care About the Kansas City Public School District

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We are once again chang­ing the focus of our Board Watch project.  When we began our eval­u­a­tions of the Kansas City Missouri School Board meet­ings nearly four years ago we hoped that our feed­back would help bring about a more effec­tive school board, a key ele­ment in cre­at­ing high func­tion­ing schools to improve stu­dents’ aca­d­e­mic per­for­mance.  Since […]

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Update as of 12/19/11

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Because of the Kansas City School District’s loss of state accred­i­ta­tion, Do the Right Thing for Kids is replac­ing our report card for­mat for school board meet­ings with nar­ra­tive com­ments focus­ing on the board’s effec­tive­ness in address­ing accred­i­ta­tion and related aca­d­e­mic achieve­ment mat­ters. We are also using this site to inform the com­mu­nity of possible […]

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DESE Feedback Form Sent

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Do the Right Thing for Kids par­tic­i­pated with other civic orga­ni­za­tions in devel­op­ing the fol­low­ing let­ter to Missouri Commissioner of Education Dr. Chris Nicastro. It fol­lows the for­mat of the feed­back form she pro­vided. Download a .pdf ver­sion of letter.

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KCMSD in the News (August)

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East High School ren­o­va­tions for an annex to house severely dis­abled stu­dents are on tar­get for the open­ing of school on August 15. In spite of assur­ances by the District’s chief of oper­a­tions, Delano par­ents remain skep­ti­cal that the school will be ready to open and are con­cerned that train­ing for teach­ers will not be […]

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KCMSD in the News (July)

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Why the time is right for Superintendent John Covington’s plan for the all-male Kansas City Preparatory Academy. http://www.kansascity.com/2011/07/03/v-print/2992189/a-school-for-just-one-sex-boys.html   It will take patience and another year to see advance­ment in stu­dent per­for­mance lev­els due to the student-center learn­ing sys­tem which is being imple­mented in the Kansas City Schools. http://www.kansascity.com/2011/07/03/v-print/2991979/kc-academic-reformers-look-ahead.html   The stu­dents are the ultimate […]

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Superintendent Covington on Transformation Phase 2

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Stating that the gen­eral pub­lic doesn’t “have a clue what we’ve done the past two years,” Superintendent John Covington sum­ma­rized oper­a­tional changes in the Kansas City School District at meet­ings at the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and the Paseo Academy. He rolled out his ambi­tious plans for Transformation Phase 2 which will con­cen­trate on improv­ing teaching […]

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KCMSD in the News (June)

Free back­packs and sup­plies will be given to all Kansas City School District ele­men­tary school stu­dents on the first day of school pro­vided by Heart to Heart International, the dis­trict and other spon­sors. http://www.kansascity.com/2011/06/21/2966376/kc-elementary-students-to-receive.html   ACE, the African-centered con­tract school, is rene­go­ti­at­ing its con­tract with the Kansas City School District. http://www.nbcactionnews.com/dpp/news/education/ace-school-battle-for-more-money-from-district http://www.kansascity.com/2011/06/21/2966375/kc-district-african-centered-program.html   The school […]

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The Star on latest Board/Superintendent Rift

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Warning of the poten­tial for micro­man­age­ment, the Civic Council of Greater Kansas City and the Kansas City branch of the NAACP urge the school board to change its recently approved pol­icy and allow the super­in­ten­dent to oper­ate the entire port­fo­lio of schools. http://www.kansascity.com/2011/06/11/2943731/rift-between-school-board-and.html

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