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KC Board Approves School Changes
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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.
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2007-04-26
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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'Sad, Sad Day'--21 KC Schools Close Down
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Article describes 21 schools in the Kansas City School District that will close as a first step in the district's improvement plan. Includes a two-page tribute to the schools being closed including Westport High School, Central Academy, and Ladd Elementary.
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2010-06-04
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Newspaper Article
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Old Schools, New Lessons
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Description
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Two years after it began an initiative to repurpose 30 vacant properties, the Kansas City School District has either sold or created reuse plans pending for at least half the properties. The article focuses on the efforts to find a plan for West High School at 20th and Summit, which closed as a school 30 years ago and has been vacant for the last decade. Also included are updates on other closed school buildings, including Graceland Elementary, Longan Elementary, Moore Elementary, Northeast Middle School, Bingham Middle School, Chick Elementary, McCoy Elementary, and Thacher Elementary.
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2013-07-16
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Annexation Efforts Proceed
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Independence, Missouri, school board "voted to put on the Nov. 6 ballot the plan to acquire seven schools that are now in the Kansas City district...." The schools in question include Van Horn High School, Clifford H. Nowlin Middle School, and Fairmount, North Rock Creeek/Korte, Mount Washington, Sugar Creek, and Three Trails elementaries. "All are in Independence or Sugar Creek."
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2007-08-29
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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3 Schools Spared in Plan that Will Close 9 Others
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The Kansas City (MO) School District has decided to close three schools along with some temporary schools that had housed eighth grade centers and special programs. The three elementary schools are Bryant, Gracelend, and Blenheim. Temporary and special programs schools closing are Chick, Pershing, Thacher, Wesport Middle, Cook, and Meservey.
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2009-06-25
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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26 Schools Will Close
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On March 10, 2010, the Kansas City school board voted 5-4 to close 26 schools as recommended by new superintendent John Covington in his "Right Sizing Plan." The closings will reduce the number of school buildings by 40 percent and cut $50 million in expenses from the school district's budget. The 33 remaining schools will be the fewest the district has operated since 1889. A few of the notable school closings include Westport High School, Lincoln College Prep middle school, and Franklin, Longan, McCoy, Woodland, and Carver elementary schools.
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2010-03-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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A New Look for Troost, DeLaSalle
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Description
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The DeLaSalle Education Center broke ground for the addition of a 1,600-square-foot building that will contain a library, early childhood center, experiential learning classrooms, and a new printing shop. The school's existing building is on Forest Avenue, a block east of Troost at 37th Terrace. Includes an artist's rendering of how the expanded school will look.
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2011-06-08
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Old Schools Await New Uses in KC Urban Core
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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.
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Date
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2007-12-09
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
