The following article from Wednesday, May 31 and the editorial in the Thursday, June 2 newspaper illustrate the danger of the KCMSD’s Board recent actions regarding their relationship with Dr. Covington. They need to foster stability in the district by working collaboratively with the superintendent. This bears watching…which is the mission of Do The Right Thing […]
Wednesday Feb 9, 2011 — By Joe Robertson After a mostly contentious decade between charter schools and the Kansas City School District, at least one charter school — and possibly more — wants to be the district’s partner. Read the full article on KansasCity.com.
This Kansas City Star editorial (To promote learning in KC, reward the best teachers) reviews some of the recommendations from the National Council on Teacher Quality. Among the recommendations are: make teacher evaluations more meaningful, move to performance based compensation, extend the number of school days per year and more. It is well worth your […]
Kansas City, Mo. School District Superintendent, John Covington, recently introduced the members of his hand-picked leadership team. Click on the link above to read their bios and learn more.
Linked below is a summary of the book Complex Justice: the case of Missouri v. Jenkins written by Joshua Dunn, Ph.D. and Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.
Dr. Dunn’s book details the landmark Missouri v. Jenkins desegregation case which mandated $2 billion of improvements to the Kansas City, Missouri school district, and which stretched for nearly three decades.
