CEE-Trust Study: Something For Everyone To Love…And Hate
Any plan that offers a solution to the persistent problem of failing inner-city schools is bound to receive some pushback....
Kansas City School Board Member Resigns … Twice?
The Kansas City School District not only struggles to run schools, but also struggles to run the school board. On Dec....
How Choice Changes The Transfer Dynamic In Kansas City
The recent Missouri Supreme Court decision, which upheld the state’s inter-district school transfer law, has many in Kansas City on...
Could Kansas City Benefit From Student Transfers?
On Dec. 10, the Missouri Supreme Court once again upheld the law that allows students to transfer from failing schools....
Andrea Flinders, Kansas City’s Acting Superintendent
Andrea Flinders is president of the Kansas City Federation of Teachers, the AFL-CIO-affiliated teachers’ union. But last week at the...
Woe Is Me – Kansas City School District
Joe Robertson, of the Kansas City Star, recently had a piece explaining that the property tax levy in the Kansas City...
Celebrating Mediocrity
The 2011 results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress for vocabulary were recently released. Missouri once again ranked near...
Virtual Education, Real Opportunity
Recently, the Kansas City Star ran a piece on a little-known and underutilized option for Missouri students, the Missouri Virtual...
Lessons For Kansas City From The Chicago Teachers Strike
Who “won” the just-ended Chicago school strike and what are the implications for other large urban districts, including Kansas City...
School Transfer Case Needs Common Sense Solutions
The Jackson County Circuit Court issued a final judgment in the school transfer case that seems to have satisfied no...
School Reform: Have We Reached The Boiling Point?
Parents continue to demand solutions to failing schools in Missouri. As an example, five Saint Louis firefighters recently sued three...
Clumsily Lurching Towards Comprehensive School Choice In Missouri?
The Kansas City Star has reported a delay in the lawsuit between five suburban school districts and the Kansas City...
Try, Try, Try Again? Not Always a Good Idea
The Kansas City School District, in another effort to reform lagging schools, plans to move students into an ungraded primary...
Kansas City School District Makes the Hard Decisions
I am not writing to commend the Kansas City School District for closing down almost half of its schools or...
“Rightsizing” Kansas City School District Potentially the Right Move
A map of the schools and their proposed status, according to the plan released by the Kansas City School District. Click...
“No Coherent Strategy” for Teaching Foreign Languages
The New York Times‘ Room for Debate blog asks whether Chinese instruction will take hold in American schools or whether...
Choice, Illustrated and Rejected
I spotted an interesting article today in the Post-Dispatch discussing frustrations that many parents are having with a school in...
What’s $67 Million Dollars Among Friends?
The Kansas City School District has lowered its demand for compensation from the Independence School District from $157 million to...
Great Ideas Abound for Kansas City’s School District
The Kansas City School District is (once again) stumbling down the path (recently blazed by the Saint Louis School District)...
Empowering Parents to Seek Out Adequate Education
As was widely expected, last week a circuit court judge denied several school districts’ claims of constitutional entitlement to...
