[MarkL]

The Kansas City MO Public School district went almost a decade without being able to meet minimum state requirements, and have had "provisional accreditation."

They did finally meet full accreditation in 2016, but last year it came out that the school district had been falsifying their records, and as of 2019, they lost their accreditation AGAIN!

You may remember that 60 Minutes did a story on a school desegregation case in KC, that included a federal judge imposing taxes on the taxpayers (eventually reversed by the SCOTUS, but the judge then threatened to hold the members of the city council in contempt if they didn't re-enact the tax.) More than One BILLION dollars were spent over the next decade or so, and the desegregation goals, let alone the hope of improving education for students were never met.

Mark

[Grampa Dave]

I was not aware of KC’s public school problems.

Your story can probably be replicated in most public schools across the nation.

[9YearLurker]

Education across the country has been dropping by the year—for decades now. It would appall most Americans who graduated from high school thirty or more years ago to see the academic performance of the mass of our students today.