KCPS FAILS To Recover From COVID

The news for local students is horrible overall . . .

Something that's concerning for the future of this entire community . . . 

KANSAS CITY PUBLIC EDUCATION HASN'T RECOVERED FROM THE PANDEMIC AND MANY STUDENTS HAVE SEEMINGLY DISAPPEARED!!!

 Actually . . . They just dropped out and now thousands of local young people with likely reside in the metro without career or life skills that they desperately need.

Here's a worthwhile peek at the data . . .

Combined with a more than 1% decrease in charter school enrollment, the change puts the district about 300 students ahead of charter schools in K-12 enrollment. Kansas City’s 20 charter schools narrowly outpaced KCPS enrollment for the first time last year.

But KCPS enrollment isn’t back to pre-pandemic levels. And some members of the public think the district needs to do a better job of promoting its accreditation status and other assets.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

KCPS outpaces charter schools in preliminary enrollment after falling behind last year

As Kansas City Public Schools began its school year with full accreditation for the first time in about a decade, preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education shows that enrollment ticked up slightly, by less than 2%.