Half of Kansas City public schools to close
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City school board is closing nearly half of the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay afloat.
The board's 5-4 decision Wednesday night means 29 out of 61 schools will shut down at the end of the school year. The district is seeking to erase a
projected $50 million budget shortfall.
Teachers at six other low-performing schools will have to reapply for their jobs, and the district will sell its downtown central office. The plan,
proposed by Superintendent John Covington, also will eliminate about 700 of 3,000 jobs, including 285 teachers.
"The bottom line is the quality of education we're offering children in Kansas City is not good enough," Covington said. "One reason it's not
good enough is that we've tried to spread our resources over far too many schools."
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Wow, the board decided to close 29 of 61 schools at the end of the school year?! That means children will either have to
A) go to another school which hasn't shut down which means very large amounts of new students, which the school will obviously be unable to
support
B) start getting home schooled (which a lot of people cannot afford to do properly)
C) not go to school at all (how sad would that be?)
This is by far some horrible news. No wonder the US is so low on the education scale across the world - crap like this keeps happening!
We are spending BILLIONS of dollars on war, literally 51% of our tax money goes to war spending, and yet they can't take a few billion out of that
tax money and throw it towards school districts that truly need the money just to 'stay afloat' - our country is very corrupt and very sickening,
period.
