TKC MUST READ: Pricey School Ruckus Confronts Guadalupe Centers

This report was sent our way and we're SHARING IT FIRST taking it seriously because it's signed and there are receipts. 

As always, we have the background that no other source in the metro can provide: 

From our perspective, a lot of this goes back to the COVID-Era Guadalupe Center takeover that was tumultuous and left hurt feelings which now span generations. The gringo KC journalists never really took time to understand that situation beyond a few sensational headlines with no follow-up and none of it merited much serious investigation since local newsies regarded the transfer of power as mere Westside barrio beef.

Until now . . .

CHECK THIS REPORT THAT OFFERS A PEEK AT MILLIONS IN EDUCATION MONEY TO A KANSAS CITY CHARTER SCHOOL THAT MIGHT MERIT ANOTHER LOOK ACROSS MISSOURI!!!  

Here's a taste and a link that most people are gonna see on our blog first . . .

"The school’s check register over those nine months shows payments to GCI totaling $6,746,212.47 — roughly $3.6 million more than the audit’s full-year disclosure, with three months still to go. At the current pace, the school system is on track to send Guadalupe Centers, a private organization, somewhere near $9 million of mostly taxpayer money this year“. That would be about double what it paid in FY25, and nearly triple what its own audit said it committed to.

"I’ve spent four months working through this story. Over that time I’ve interviewed four current and former employees of the Guadalupe Centers Charter Schools system, reviewed three years of independent audits, pulled IRS Form 990s for both entities, requested board minutes, and submitted multiple emails to GCI seeking comment. None of those emails has been answered.

"This week, I filed a formal complaint with the Missouri State Auditor’s Office requesting a review of the financial relationship between GES and GCI. This post – the first in a series – explains why."

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

The $3.6 Million Question

A Kansas City charter school, its sole corporate member, and the gap between what the audit disclosed and what the check register shows - and a Missouri law that may prohibit the arrangement entirely. Is Kansas City's ever-expanding charter school operating within State Law?

Developing . . .