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Title: Kansas City Schools Learn the Hard Way: Missouri Revokes the District's Accreditation
Description: Photo and article about the revocation of the Kansas City School District's state accreditation in Missouri achieving "neither integration nor excellence" since its 1980s court-ordered desegregation. Brief history of the school district's problems since the 1950s, including the expensive features designed to attract white suburban students such as the "Olympic-size swimming pool, primo indoor running track, and personal computers for almost every student at Central High School in Kansas City, Mo."
Date: 2000-05-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Courting Trouble
Description: Article about the United States Supreme Court case dealing with the desegregation program of the Kansas City School District.
Date: 1995-06-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Just Cause? Judge Russell Clark Talks Candidly about His 20 Years on
Description: Biographical article about Judge Russell Gentry Clark of the United States District Court, presiding over or dealing with for 20 years "the most corpulent and controversial school desegregation project in the history of America." There are photos and details of his life, including comparisons of him with former Jackson County Judge Harry Truman and former President Franklin Roosevelt with similarly difficult problems to solve.
Date: 1997-09-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Mauro Majority
Description: Article describing the relationship between Kansas City Board of Education member Al Mauro and the Black United Front.
Date: 2002-03-21
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Making the Grade: an Annual Report Card on our Schools
Description: Special section reports on public schools in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Included are test scores and various statistic measures for school districts and for states of Kansas and Missouri as a whole.
Date: 2004-12-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Open Air Schools
Description: Short article about the Open Air Schools in the Kansas City School District. Includes a list of 15 elementary schools which have an open air room at the time. States that Karnes School was the first and that Dr. E. W. Schauffler was responsible for establishing them. Article also includes photographs of rooms.
Date: 1930-01-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

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: Old Schools Await New Uses in KC Urban Core
Description: This article gives information on the abandoned school buildings owned by the Kansas City School District. "Since the 1970s, the Kansas City district has closed at least 34 schools. Fifteen were sold. Nineteen remain district property. Some found new life. One--Southwest High School--is planned for reopening. But most stand vacant. Some are empty lots." The article also states that "of the 34 schools closed so far, 16 were east of Troost Avenue between Truman Road and 55th Street" and most in the urban core area remain closed. Those schools mentioned as closed include: Bancroft Elementary School located at 4300 Tracy Avenue, Seven Oaks School, Greenwood School, West High School, Manchester School, Kumpf School, Horace Mann School located at 2008 E. 39th Street (used for awhile by the Brown-Caldwell Christian School), D. A. Holmes School located at 3004 Benton Boulevard (later rehabilitated as the D.A. Holmes Senior Apartments), Bristol School (now a post office), Carlisle School (now an armory and U.S. Army Reserve center), and Faxon School located at 3710 the Paseo.
Date: 2007-12-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article