Posted on 03/10/2010 5:52:43 PM PST by tobyhill
The Kansas City school board voted Wednesday night to close nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay afloat.
The board's 5-4 decision came after parents and community leaders made final pleas for the district not to shut down 29 out of 61 schools as it seeks to erase a projected $50 million budget shortfall.
"The urban core has suffered white flight post-the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. the Board of Education, blockbusting by the real estate industry, redlining by banks and other financial institutions, retail and grocery store abandonment," Kansas City Councilwoman Sharon Sanders Brooks said to applause from a standing-room-only crowd of more than 200 people.
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The only good thing I can point to it that this proved conclusively that you cannot solve the problems of public schools by throwing MASSIVE money at them.
I doubt these closures hold without some court challenge of some type.
The [Brown] suit called for the school district to reverse its policy of racial segregation. Separate elementary schools were operated by the Topeka Board of Education under an 1879 Kansas law, which permitted (but did not require) districts to maintain separate elementary school facilities for black and white students in twelve communities with populations over 15,000.
From Wikipedia.
Or in the case of when this happened in Boston, engage in outright violence.
Well Ms. Brooks that certianly says a lot about the Black community. What you just said is that once the White Community decided to leave for greener pastures your Black Community could not function. Why is it your community never pulled their boots on and took advantage of the situation and got working and thrived?
I ran into the former neighbor a few months later. The school board had announced a re-districting and they didn't like the new school. They sold their house at a fraction of its value so they could get into a better district before the deadlines hit for the next year.
That's already the law. Ask W. and the dead Drunk about "No school bureaucrat left behind".
Well it was on the NBC evening news I think tonight and they were making a big deal of new mandates.
It was $2 billion. According to the article:
For the past few years, the district has been plowing through the large reserves it built up when money from a $2 billion court-ordered desegregation plan was flooding its coffers.
And now the district is trying to "erase a projected $50 million budget shortfall" by closing nearly half the schools (which are only half full to begin with, according to the article) and cutting "about 700 of the district's 3,000 jobs".
Read that again, and do the math.
And always remember - - it's all whitey's fault.
The KC schools WERE plated in gilt after his ''decision''. Just another do-gooder dildo. His ''decision'' not only didn't improve anything, it laid a ridiculous tax burden on residents of Jackson County...to date, world without end.
The students are still the same lot that they'd been before, in about 94% of cases. Dumbshjts, can't add 30+43, can't name any 10 presidents, and, I daresay, would cheerfully sign a petition that dihydrogen monoxide should be banned by law, insofar as said substance is involved in the occasional drowning.
And the taxpayers still get to pay, world without end, for Black's idiocy, and sponsoring yet more stupidity from the assorted scumbums in the teachers' unions.
The first time that any lawmaker proposes a bill that allows citizens to execute anti-Constitutionalists who happen to be sitting on one or another bench, I shall regain some hope for the survival of the American republic.
I fricking knew it from reading the storyh before I looked it up on Google. Is it stereotyping if you're always right?
Even when we leave and get out of the way. Damn but we’re powerful /s
Whitey left the schools and because of that, the blacks can’t learn. Scratching my head at this kind of logic. Oh well, the ass hat Federal Judge can sleep well at nights. A couple more billion taxpayer dollars up in smoke. It doesn’t matter though. The know it all judge’s intentions were good.
Fourth Generation welfare/foodstamp/Medicaid/etc. recipients who want OTHERS to fund their entire lives and vote only for those who would hand them freebies.
Get used to it; this is the future for Amerika under the Socialists.....
Actually it was Judge Russell G. Clark who did it. As you say it was an expensive disaster.
Can someone from KC explain how much the property taxes were forced up.
There is a world of difference between Brown v Board of Education, (neighborhood schools), and Missouri v Jenkins, mandating forced busing to schools far away from home, pulling suburban kids into inner city schools. Also known as Insta-sprawl.
He was criticized.
Obviously his critics were right and he was wrong is they can come up with a rational plan to close 29 of the existing buildings.
That's $1.7 billion down the drain, more or less, or, at least the waste of a great deal of that money.
No doubt he died feeling good about himself ~ that was on April 17, 2003, nearly 7 years ago.
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