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Title: Report of the Superintendent of Schools for the Years 1934-1940: Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Photo and biographical sketch of Ira Insco Cammack, or Ira Cammack (1858-1939), superintendent of schools in Kansas City, Missouri, from 1913 to 1928, replacing James M. Greenwood, and starting with the school system in 1886 after moving to Kansas City from Indiana.
Date: 1940
Object Type: Book

Title: School Chief Known for Bold Ideas
Description: Anthony Amato is known for taking risks and making big changes in the urban school districts where he has worked. His own experience growing up as a child of a single, migrant parent has led Amato to institute dual-language programs and emphasize the importance of parent involvement. He served in districts in New York City, New Orleans and Hartford, among others.
Date: 2006-06-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: KC School Chief Hired in Michigan
Description: Article reports the hiring of Bernard Taylor as the next superintendent of the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Public Schools. Taylor's contract as superintendent of the Kansas City School District, which the Kansas City Board of Education decided not to renew in October, 2005, ends on June 30, 2006.
Date: 2006-02-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Praise, Tips for Amato from Outgoing Taylor
Description: Article reports hiring of Anthony Amato as superintendent of the Kansas City School District. Outgoing Superintendent Bernard Taylor praised Amato and, while acknowledging that Amato would still face many challenges, won't be dealing with desegregation, a threat of state takeover and lack of accreditation.
Date: 2006-05-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: From the School District: After Demps, a Plan?
Description: Article about the plans by the Board of Education for reorganization of the Kansas City School District's administrative structure in the wake of former superintendent Benjamin Demps's departure, featuring increased focus on "improving academic achievement."
Date: 2001-06-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Community Forum: A Look into the Infamous KCMO School Board
Description: Letter to the editor by a member of the Kansas City School Board about the Board's supposed "power struggle" with school superintendent Benjamin Demps. Discussion of various school issues, such as Demps's approval of the breaking up of the Northeast sub-district "in half," etc.
Date: 2001-03-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: School Board Explains Policy, Defends Decisions
Description: Occassionaly the Kansas City School Board has an open forum meeting in which community members can ask questions. On January 22, 2002, questions were taken at the Gladstone Academy auditorium. Article includes questions asked and the answers.
Date: 2002-02-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Education: The Kansas City Trouble
Description: Article about the "ugly racial incidents" occurring in the Kansas City School District since its racial integration about 1954. Problems brought "into the open" by superintendent James Hazlett with stricter enforcement on trouble-makers following violent incidents at Central Junior High School and Central High School.
Date: 1958-01-27
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Superintendents: Why They Left
Description: A list of Kansas City School District superintendents with photos and years of employment and why they left the district. It covers the years 1977 to 2006.
Date: 2005-10-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Taylor Out As KC School Chief
Description: The Kansas City School District Board of Education voted 8 to 1 to let superintendent Bernard Taylor go after his contract runs out June 30, 2006. They requested that he stay until that time and they won't buy out his contract. Taylor has been here in the head position 4 1/2 years. The board's concerns include: dropout rates, academic achievement, declining enrollment and front office turnover. "When he was named interim superintendent in April 2001, Taylor was 41, a mid-level administator overseeing some of the district's principals. He'd come to Kansas City from a job as an elementary school principal in Pittsburgh just nine months before."
Date: 2005-10-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: James A. Hazlett
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of James A. Hazlett, Superintendent of the Kansas City School District.
Date: 1964
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mark W. Bills
Description: Portrait of Dr. Mark W. Bills, Supertinendent of schools in Kansas City. He spoke at the January 11, 1955 luncheon meeting.
Date: 1955~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Dr. James Hazlett
Description: View of Dr. James Hazlett seated at his desk. Probably taken early in his term as school Superintendent of the Kansas City School District.
Date: 1955~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Dr. James Hazlett
Description: Portrait of Dr. James Hazlett seated at his desk. Probably taken at the beginning of his term as school Superintendent of the Kansas City School District.
Date: 1955~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Dr. James Hazlett
Description: View of Dr. James Hazlett seated at his desk while Superintendent of Schools for the Kansas City School District. Taken in the School Board Building at 12th and Oak streets.
Date: 1960~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Dr. James Hazlett
Description: View of Dr. James Hazlett seated at his desk in the Kansas City School District Board building at 12th and Oak streets. Believed to have been taken while he was Superintendent of Schools for the district.
Date: 1960~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mark W. Bills
Description: Portrait of Kansas City Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Mark W. Bills. Before coming to Kansas City, Bills had been a school superintendent in Flint, Michigan.
Date: 1952~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: A Good Guy Leaving a Tough Job
Description: Interview with editorial commentary about George Garcia, superintendent of the Kansas City School District from 1987 to about 1990, discussing the scrutiny over the implementation of "a court-ordered desegregation plan" and related issues of racial equality in education, race relations, magnet schools, etc.
Date: 1990-11-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Kansas City School District & the Death of Democracy
Description: Photo (of Demps) and essay about the troubled tenure of Benjamin Demps as superintendent of schools for the Kansas City School District from 1999 to 2001. Discussion on reasons for the school district's problems, especially "a shifting, amorphous coalition of largely self-seeking politicos and hangers-on" (part of "the inner city patronage machine" made up of "activist Clinton Adams, the Reverend Fuzzy Thompson, Freedom, Inc., and certain union people") written about in the book "The Greed within Them" by Anna and Leroy Hyrne.
Date: 2001-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Dr. James Hazlett
Description: Portrait of Dr. James A. Hazlett, Superintendent of Schools for the Kansas City School District from 1955-1969.
Date: 1960~
Object Type: Photograph

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