Missouri Sen. Jane Cunningham may have just saved public education in Kansas City.
Nothing is more likely to pull Kansas City out of its funk than the prospect that a Republican senator from a suburban region on the eastern side of the state might determine the fate of the urban school district here.
Cunningham has introduced a bill that would permanently dissolve the Kansas City Public Schools as a district. Neighboring districts would be mandated to take over its buildings and students. For good measure, Cunningham’s bill would authorize tax credits for donors who contribute to scholarship funds so that students in unaccredited districts can attend private and parochial schools.
It appears there are a lot of people in Missouri who do not have much use for Sen. Cunningham and her anti-public school vendetta.
Looking at the article it seems that the people who have to live with the failure of Kansas City think that it is a good idea for more successful suburban school districts to annex what remains useful to them and then with the rump inner-city district to farm it out to someone who will promise anything other than the same old failure.
ReplyDeleteNow you may not like this Turner, but in point of fact you have no solution other than whining about how the current failed reality simply must continue because you have to feed off of it. You are like a piglet that has sucked the sow dry.
In any case, failure is failure and you have lost any credibility in complaining about it. Time to try something new, anything, in order to get out of the same old failure, even if it leads to lesser failure or simply letting the denizens of Kansas City live with straitened circumstances.