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Title: KC Board Approves School Changes
Description: The Kansas City School Board agreed by a 5-2 vote to phase out most of the district's middle schools. Superintendent Anthony Amato has pushed the phase out in favor of neighborhood elementary schools serving children in kindergarten through the eighth grade. The article also states that as many as six middle schools could close with others used as elementary schools. Also a college prep secondary school with a math and science emphasis would open at Southwest High School with Chick, Ladd, and Clarke students moving to an African centered campus at the Southeast Zoo Academy and Southeast High School. A universal preschool for 3 to 5-year olds would be established.
Date: 2007-04-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: "Vacancy" Sign Is Common
Description: Kansas City School District Superintendent John Covington's resignation (that he gave August 26) will take effect September 1st by vote of the school board. Board President Airick Leonard West "is stepping down as president but will remain on the board." An interim superintendent has yet to be announced. Includes a sidebar, "Covington's New Contract," that outlines his salary and potential performance bonuses in his new position with the Education Achievement Authority school system in Michigan.
Date: 2011-08-31
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Desegregation in the Kansas City School District
Description: "The case of Missouri v. Jenkins marked the federal court's most expensive and most ambitious attempt to desegregate a public school district. In 1984, Judge Russell Clark ruled that the Kansas City, Missouri, School District was unconstitutionally segregated" (from book jacket). Instead of busing, the judge raised taxes to help pay for over $2 billion in improvements which included magnet schools, employee salary raises, and the building of facilities with "extravagant amenities." The book gives the history of the issue of desegregation in the Kansas City School District as well as the court procedures and philosophy that accompanied them.
Date: 2008
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City School District Officials
Description: Composite photograph identified as Board of Directors, Officers, and Heads of Departments of the School District of Kansas City, Mo. Includes portraits of the following men: Charles A. Smith, architect; E. F. Swinney, treasurer; Purd B. Wright, librarian; Sanford B. Ladd, counsel; J. H. Brady, chief engineer; J. M. Greenwood, superintendent; Hale H. Cook, Henry L. McCune, F. D. Tharpe, asst. superintendent; J. B. Jackson, Jr., secretary; Frank S. Casey, purchasing agent; J. J. Cammack, asst. superintendent, William T. Bland, J. S. Harrison, Milton Moore, vice president, and Frank A. Faxon, president.
Date: 1912-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Interim Leader Is Named
Description: In the wake of school superintendent Covington's resignation, which took everyone by surprise, the school board moved quickly and within a week had appointed an interim superintendent. Steve Green, the new interim superintendent, was a former administrator in a New York City sub-school district and currently had been chief executive of the Kauffman Scholars, Inc.
Date: 2011-09-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: What's Next For The School District?
Description: Dr. John Covington, superintendent of schools, announced Wednesday, that he would resign from his position. Covington was hired on April 30, 2009, by a unanimous vote by the school board and later closed 26 schools after a 5-4 vote by the board on March 10, 2010.
Date: 2011-08-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Bryce B. Smith
Description: Undated formal portrait of Bryce B. Smith, member of the Kansas City School District Board of Education. Typewritten label on the back reads, "BRYCE B SMITH/BOARD MEMBER 1927-1930." Smith was also mayor of Kansas City from 1930-1934.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Services for Community Advocate Marilyn Simmons to be Held Saturday
Description: Article on the death of Marilyn Simmons, "best known for her years of dedicated service to parents and students in the Kansas City, Mo., School District as President of the School Board and as chair woman of the District Advisory Committee." Simmons died from lung cancer and pneumonia on May 12, 2012.
Date: 2012-05-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Plan to Improve Schools Unveiled
Description: On Saturday, Kansas City school officials released their plan to improve the area schools. Among the proposed steps, "the five year initiative calls for longer days and measuring progress by skills, not grades." Superintendent John Covington wants more parental involvement and the elimination of unnecessary spending.
Date: 2010-03-21
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Many New Dynamics Face School District Leadership
Description: Article about Dr. R. Stephen Green being named the interim superintendent of schools, after John Covington's abrupt resignation. Dr. Green had served as president and chief executive officer of Kauffman Scholars, Inc.
Date: 2011-09-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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