www.kansascity.com | 05/16/2007 | Redistricting plan approved: "“The dirty little secret about this debate is that it’s not about local control; it’s about re-segregating the school district in Kansas City,” said Rep. John Burnett, a Kansas City Democrat. “We are trying to take seven white schools away from a minority school district and re-segregate Kansas City.”"
Rep. Burnett is correct. You can't solve this systemic problem on a piece-meal basis. That is true segregationist thinking.
Doesn't MARC have the 1 KC Campaign? Until our school districts match the other geographic boundaries there is always going to be a problem. I'm all for 1 Independence, but then that means we need to bring back the Independence schools that lay in the eastern part of the city from the Blue Springs school district. Likewise, somehow there should be a single, Kansas City, Missouri School District.
Or, is there an another option? Growing up in Michigan we had local school districts and then intermediate school districts that served as a bridge between the local district and the state board of education. Perhaps there should be a Jackson County Intermediate School District? Or, we cab continue to wage these border wars. It worked so well in the past.
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