Kansas City repeats yet another year of improvement promises from our broken public schools.
Take a look:
"The chief of the embattled Kansas City Public School District said on Sunday that he believed the city’s schools would regain provisional accreditation when the results of the coming week’s state tests come in this fall."
What everybody knows in this sitch and nobody is saying is this: Missouri doesn't want the KCPS.
In fact, the course of action endorsed by most (and a bit of TKC EXCLUSIVE reporting) involves breaking up the KCPS and saving viable portions like Waldo/Brookside.
But in the meantime, local politicos and just about everybody on the payroll will continue to offer propaganda regarding progress after a downward spiral that has lasted more than a generation.
"Viable portions like Waldo/Brookside." You mean where the white people live? Says a lot
ReplyDeleteTony, you are a fucking lying asshole. Tell us who is pushing for this Walso/Brookside break from KCPS? No one. Why do you keep putting out this lie? Just because you know it will piss people off? I can't think of another reason. And 6:39, please keep your racist BS out if it.
ReplyDelete"TKC exclusive reporting"?? AKA made-up fantasies to block any potential progress.
ReplyDeleteTony, you're really losing credibility by continuing to bring this up and not substantiating it in any way. While it might have been a possibility a year or two ago, the advent of Hale Cook in combination with Gunnar's placement on the KCPS board is making the possibility more and more remote.
ReplyDeleteJust for clarification, you think the KCPS is going to be broken up into pieces and assigned where? Center is the obvious choice for Waldo/Brookside, but for the areas of the district where there are actually students, I don't think there will be takers. Independence is sinking, fast. Hickman Mills is a bigger mess than the KCPS. NKC wants no part. Raytown?
ReplyDeleteThe best long term solution is a viable KCPS that is stable and effective.
I think Tony is just referring to one of the options Jeff City was considering if HB50 were to pass. Dividing the district up to the surrounding districts was something that was being considered as an option. I heard them mention this option myself when I listened to the bill being debated while it was still in the senate.
ReplyDeleteBut the hale cook split off, I'm sure that's not happening now that Gunnar Hand is on the school board. That part of this claim doesn't make sense.
ReplyDeleteIndependence may be sinking..but they are still way above KCPS as far as the new MSIP standards go. KCPS scored 19% under the new scoring system, while all of the other districts in the area were over 50%, and many were 90% or higher. The only exception was Hickman Mills- but even they scored 42%.
ReplyDeleteI hope that Dr Green is correct when he says they expect to be able to regain provisional accreditation after this round of testing, but that is going to take quite some doing seeing where they stand now.
This Waldo/Brookside nonsense is sillier than your failed attempt to follow the 15k until it was returned. There is no truth to what you are saying on this at all. Sort of like the sexting controversy surrounding the 15k....Tony you are as empty as the media you bash all day.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet you're still reading 2:36. Lol.
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