TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREP ACADEMY APPROVED BY MISSOURI AND EXPECTED TO SERVE MOSTLY BLACK & LATINA STUDENTS!!!
Important education news for Kansas City urban core breaking FIRST here on TKC . . .
THE MISSOURI BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVES THE KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREP ACADEMY AND A NEW HOPE FOR EDUCATION IN THE URBAN CORE!!!
Reactionaries might hate on this one but it's really one of the best developments we've seen in years in order to better serve young lady students and their parents and offer them a better chances at success.
Here's the official word . . .
MISSOURI BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVES NEW KANSAS CITY CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
JEFFERSON CITY— Kansas City’s first all-girls charter school won unanimous approval today from the Missouri Board of Education, its final regulatory hurdle. “Today’s State Board decision gives families in Kansas City a new educational option for their daughters,” said Roger Dorson, interim commissioner of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. “Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy has an exciting opportunity to help Missouri ensure that all students graduate ready to succeed.”
KCGPA will open in an as yet-to-be-announced location in northeast Kansas City in August, 2019. To start, it will enroll 100 fifth grade girls, add one new grade per year, eventually growing to a 5th - 8th grade middle school, and a 9th - 12th grade high school. They expect that nearly three-quarters of their students will be African American or Hispanic. “We are appreciative of the confidence shown in our model and our leadership,” said Tom Krebs, the chief executive officer of the new school. “It is our goal to provide all of our young women access to a broad range of high-quality educational opportunities from early learning into post-high school engagement.”
Charter schools cannot open in Missouri without a state-authorized sponsor and approval from the Missouri Board of Education. KCGPA is being sponsored by the Missouri Charter Public School Commission, which was established in 2012 by the Missouri General Assembly. It is an independent commission appointed by the governor with the authority to sponsor high quality charter public schools, and hold them accountable. “The commission will play two roles in the new school. We will provide oversight to ensure parents that their girls are getting a quality education, and we will provide technical assistance to the governing board and leadership of the school to help them achieve that goal,” said Robbyn Wahby, executive director of the MCPSC.
The leadership of the new school will also get and has already gotten expert assistance from the Missouri Charter Public School Association, which was created for just that purpose. “It is our mission to help improve student achievement in Missouri through the charter school model,” said Dr. Doug Thaman, executive director of the Association.”We were delighted to guide and support KCGPA and are confident they will provide students with an excellent education.”
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Read the presser in its entirety.
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Not a bad deal at all. I think giving people more options than the KC public school district is the way to go. If this removes them from the system even a little bit, it's way better than what we've got.
ReplyDeleteSaving those who can save themselves first. The right idea. Nice news for a change, I like.
DeleteThe charter schools have been the saving grace for KCPS. The real future here and something that KC needs to support even more to improve out local schools.
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ReplyDeleteBig concern would be Slie withholding their operating funds, like he does KCSD funds, provided charter schools are tax supported.
ReplyDeleteIf it was a school for whites there would be hue and cry from the black community. This school should not focus on any particular racial group and as it stands it's a bad idea.
ReplyDeleteBased on what I saw when I was doing contract IT work at various Schools in the KCMOPSD, the bathroom and hallway brawls at this school should be epic!
ReplyDeleteAs well as the pregnancy rate among the under 18 crowd.
DeleteThere’s no racial division here at all, nope, not one bit. Unless of course it would be for whites only, then the sjw’s would be burning down the city, I garauntee.
ReplyDeleteI do hope it works out for these girls, they need all the help they can get, as long as they’re willing to break the cycle of baby momma’s and endless cycles of welfare.
Black females and illegal alien Mexican females will get along about as well as lions and water buffalo.
ReplyDeleteThey believe that three quarters of the student body will be black or Hispanic. I wonder whether they are going to employ racial quotas for admission. Sounds like it. If so, I wonder how they are going to win the inevitable racial discrimination lawsuit.
ReplyDeleteThey claim that education for their target groups has not been "equitable," but they do not claim it has been unequal. Meaning, it has been the same education offered to everybody else, but somehow unfair to black and Hispanic girls. Sounds like doublespeak to me. I hope, without believing it to be the case, that somebody somewhere in the education bureaucracy asked them to explain what the heck they're talking about.
Classes include:
ReplyDeleteApplyin' fo dat welfare 101
Smelly Cooking 101
SPREAD DEM LEGS! How to attract a man and have a dozen children 101
Sheltering undocumented relatives 101
How To Turn Your Life Around 101
Weave and braid 202,this will be an accelarated,college credit because most baby mommas have been doing lil Tyrell and Shanqueesha hair since da 6th grade.
DeleteWe need an ethno virus.
ReplyDeleteThat’s good news. A small small number but it’s a good start.
ReplyDelete4:35 now that’s funny right there!
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ReplyDeleteRacism?????? Yes indeed.
And the things they say about us.
4:35 has it right!
Keep it, it's not good enough for white students!!!!
Don't think Sly James approved this.
ReplyDeleteActually, seems like a pretty good idea. If it pisses off old, crusty white guys, then I think its a win all around.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for 1st lawsuit that has Johnny is Sue today and wants to use the girls bathroom.
ReplyDeleteIt's okay. Crusty STD ridden young people are going to be stuck with the bills.
ReplyDeleteWill it provide daycare for the scholars’ chillun?
ReplyDeleteIf that headline had said serving mostly white girls can you just imagine how much hell would be raised over that fact?
ReplyDeleteit's exactly so they will not have to hear the younger douche bag versions of most of you posting.
ReplyDeletethere will be no 'who has got the best ass' contest in the hallway on the way to class.
ReplyDeletethere will be no 'who has got the best tits' contest in math class.
ReplyDeleteWhat if the boys identify as female, can they get in, maybe at the head of the line
ReplyDeleteGood! Maybe they won’t be reproducing so soon!
ReplyDeleteRun by men? No thanks. Put female administrators in charge--smart, educated women who know the research.
ReplyDelete{The racism in TKC comments is outrageous, and evidence of why better educational opportunities are essential.}
Racism is just a figment of your white guilt
Delete^^Nonsense
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