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Title
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The Kansas City School District & the Death of Democracy
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2001-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
