Federal Judges have been exercising the power of the purse over school districts for two or three generations. Wrecked the KCMO school district. It’s only now starting to recover.
Yes, KC is where they built a high school for over $1 billion. It included a reproduction of a pioneer’s cabin complete with full-time caretaker. Huge swimming pool for a student body that didn’t swim. Money was no object, he was going to draw in those reluctant white students from the suburbs. He also was a decade or so behind the times in terms of technology schools actually used. So he ordered up loads of 16mm film projectors that only the oldest of the staff even knew how to use.