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Below is a link to last weeks article by Joe Robertson in the Kansas City Star regarding the ongoing dialogue in the community on having an appointed School Board.
http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/950869.html
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KC Star article 12/24 on Appointed Boards
Posted in News Archive (Inactive) on January 5, 2009 | Comments Off
School Closings?
Posted in News Archive (Inactive), tagged school boad reform on October 23, 2008 | Comments Off
Facing steeply declining student enrollment, the District is once again considering closing schools, this time without a permanent superintendent to blame for any of the certain-to-follow political fallout. It will be interesting to see how this turns out and clearly Marilyn Simmons has her own thoughts on the plan (she would take 2 of the proposed [...]
Ingrid Burnett Resigns from “Dysfunctional” School Board
Posted in News Archive (Inactive), tagged School Board Reform on September 25, 2008 | Comments Off
Please click through the link below to see the news coverage in the Kansas City Star regarding the surprise resignation of Ingrid Burnett from the Board of Education. A high level of frustration with the inability of the Board to correct its governance issues was a major factor in Ms. Burnett’s resignation.
Some additional detail is provided in the [...]
School Board Reform in the Nation’s Capital
Posted in News Archive (Inactive), tagged Improving Urban Schools on September 8, 2008 | Comments Off
The link below is to an article which appeared in Education Week about the new Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public school district, Michelle Rhee. Ms. Rhee was appointed by the Mayor of Washington, D.C. in June 2007 and has spearheaded initiatives such as performance pay for teachers (in some instances six figure salaries, depending [...]
About Face on SFA Renewal?
Posted in News Archive (Inactive), tagged School Board Reform on August 22, 2008 | Comments Off
We hope you didn’t miss this article in the KC Star on the renewal of the District’s current reading program Success for All (SFA). Just in case, here is a link:
http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/758635.html
This is only the latest example of our Board’s dysfunction and the lack of cohesion within the Board (not to mention the poor working relationship between this [...]
