MUST READ!!! POWER TO PRINCIPALS COULD PROVIDE KEY TO FULL ACCREDITATION FOR KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!!



The push is on to find a way to push Kansas City back toward Full-Accreditation after more than a few missteps over the past few years.

Right now the district is looking for ideas that mostly involve parents and their political friends shilling for contracts.

However . . .

Recent progress in other parts of the nation PROVES THAT PROVIDING PRINCIPALS WITH MORE FINANCIAL POWER OVER THEIR SCHOOLS LEADS TO REAL IMPROVEMENT and better distribution of resources.

The Show-Me blog makes this argument supported by more than a bit of data:

"Here in Kansas City, better school management means moving the power of the purse away from the top-down centralized control at 12th and McGee streets and out to the principals at Paseo, Lincoln Prep, and elsewhere."

More here: An Idea for Kansas City Schools: Give Principals Power - Show-Me Daily - Show-Me Daily
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Comments

  1. Are you suggesting that principals have not had power over their schools in the past. When KCPS and parents attain a decent attendance record for students, there is hope for improvement in academics.

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  2. Just another con job piled on top of decades of the same. Jesus, how gullible are people in this town anyway?

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  3. Just a thought to KCPS:
    Why not let the teachers teach, administration manage the business end of the district, and the parents teach their kids the importance of education, hard work, and civil behavior.
    And all the activists, community organizers, consultants, do-gooders, and others on the endless list of hangers-on, but who have NO RESPONSIBILITY of any kind for actually educating young people, go find something else to do and leave these people alone to do their jobs.

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    1. You 4:40, know what time it is...

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  4. Paseo High school is no longer a shitty school. The principal there has done amazing work setting higher expectations and strictly enforcing discipline policies. The standardized scores are way up. There is definitely something going on that is good in KCMSD, at least at Paseo.

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  5. Paseo High School? Are you joking? I live in KCMO and I wouldn't send my kids there even if I didn't like them.

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