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Barb Shelly Checks Back In on KCPS

By DTRTFK On May 4, 2012 · Add Comment
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Barb Shelly posted the piece linked below after recent conversations with area superintendents. After hoping for the best with the current KCPS arrangement, she is now seeing the benefits of a bold and truly transformative solution, as we have been recommending. http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/heres-what-might-work-kansas-city-public-schools/
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Why is the Kansas City Area Education Research Consortium (KC-AERC) good news for our region?

By DTRTFK On March 29, 2012 · Add Comment
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For all the controversy about effects of standardized testing on the educational future of our country, testing is not going away. The KC-AERC is unique in its scope as a regional organization, applying sophisticated and thoughtful attention to how our students, teachers, and districts are being evaluated, and how the informed use of data can [...]
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Write-in candidates announcing campaigns to become KCPS school board members

By DTRTFK On March 3, 2012 · Add Comment
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Write-in candidates are announcing campaigns to become members of the KCPS school board. Do the Right Thing For Kids again refers you to the editorial in the February 25, 2012 issue of The Kansas City Star [“Break with the past and restructure the school [...]
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To Our Friends Who Care About the Kansas City Public School District

By DTRTFK On January 24, 2012 · Add Comment
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We are once again changing the focus of our Board Watch project.  When we began our evaluations of the Kansas City Missouri School Board meetings nearly four years ago we hoped that our feedback would help bring about a more effective school board, a key element in creating high functioning schools to improve students’ academic [...]
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Update as of 12/19/11

By DTRTFK On December 19, 2011 · 1 Comment
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Because of the Kansas City School District’s loss of state accreditation, Do the Right Thing for Kids is replacing our report card format for school board meetings with narrative comments focusing on the board’s effectiveness in addressing accreditation and related academic achievement matters. We are also using this site to inform the community of possible [...]
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DESE Feedback Form Sent

By DTRTFK On November 11, 2011 · Add Comment
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Do the Right Thing for Kids participated with other civic organizations in developing the following letter to Missouri Commissioner of Education Dr. Chris Nicastro. It follows the format of the feedback form she provided. Download a .pdf version of letter.
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KCMSD in the News (August)

By DTRTFK On August 16, 2011 · Add Comment
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East High School renovations for an annex to house severely disabled students are on target for the opening of school on August 15. In spite of assurances by the District’s chief of operations, Delano parents remain skeptical that the school will be ready to open and are concerned that training for teachers will not be [...]
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KCMSD in the News (July)

By DTRTFK On July 14, 2011 · Add Comment
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Why the time is right for Superintendent John Covington’s plan for the all-male Kansas City Preparatory Academy. http://www.kansascity.com/2011/07/03/v-print/2992189/a-school-for-just-one-sex-boys.html   It will take patience and another year to see advancement in student performance levels due to the student-center learning system which is being implemented in the Kansas City Schools. http://www.kansascity.com/2011/07/03/v-print/2991979/kc-academic-reformers-look-ahead.html   The students [...]
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Superintendent Covington on Transformation Phase 2

By DTRTFK On July 4, 2011 · Add Comment
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Stating that the general public doesn’t “have a clue what we’ve done the past two years,” Superintendent John Covington summarized operational changes in the Kansas City School District at meetings at the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and the Paseo Academy. He rolled out his ambitious plans for Transformation Phase 2 which will concentrate on [...]
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KCMSD in the News (June)

By DTRTFK On July 1, 2011 · Add Comment
Free backpacks and supplies will be given to all Kansas City School District elementary school students on the first day of school provided by Heart to Heart International, the district and other sponsors. http://www.kansascity.com/2011/06/21/2966376/kc-elementary-students-to-receive.html   ACE, the African-centered contract school, is renegotiating its contract with the Kansas City School District.
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