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Title: Special Report: A Report Card on Our Schools
Description: This special section lists area schools and their test scores and includes not only public but private schools. A good source for a complete listing of the schools including Kansas counties Johnson, Leavenworth, and Wyandotte and Missouri counties Jackson, Clay, and Platte.
Date: 2003-10-26
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: Painful History of Segregation Worth Remembering for KC School District
Description: Article describes a school district map showing segregated school boundary lines of Kansas City Public Schools. Maurice Smith, son of the teacher who originally owned the map, recognized its historical significance and donated it to the school district. The map illustrates how the city was divided between white and black school districts before the mid 1950s. The city integrated its schools in the 1955-1956 academic year.
Date: 2011-01-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Manual Training High School
Description: Postcard of Manual Training High School.
Date: 1907
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Horace Mann School
Description: Postcard of the Horace Mann School.
Date: 1915~
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Humboldt School
Description: Postcard showing the Humboldt School that once stood on the northwest corner of 11th and Holmes streets.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Whittier School
Description: Postcard of the Whittier School.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Manchester School
Description: Postcard of the Manchester School.
Date: 1913
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Scarritt School
Description: Postcard of the Scarritt School.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Westport High School
Description: Postcard of Westport High School.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Central High School
Description: Postcard showing the old Central High School building.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: SC76 Faxon School Census Book Finding Aid
Description: This collection consists of an enrollment book for Faxon School covering the school years 1906-07 through 1912-13. The book lists the following information for each student in 1st through 7th grades: name; age (in years and months); date of admission; previous school; grade; class; name of parent or guardian; occupation of parent or guardian; residence; birthplace of student; if and when they left during the school year; for what reason they left; number of days belonged, attended, absent, and tardy for each term and for the entire school year. For some years, teachers' names, students' vaccination status, or parent/guardian birthplace is listed.
Date: 1906/1913
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: The Popular Ideology of Segregated Schooling: Attitudes toward the Education of Blacks in Kansas, 1854-1900
Description: Photos and article about segregated education in later 19th century Kansas. Well-documented essay exploring "the grass-roots attitudes toward the schooling of black Americans in Kansas, a Great Plains state which throughout the 19th century prided itself as a political entity dedicated to the principles of freedom and justice." Examines the changing situations pertaining to the "race problem" as more African Americans entered the state after the Civil War and attitudes hardened toward because of "racial prejudice" (page 264) related to providing equal and integrated education to blacks and whites. Portrays various sides of the sitation, from legislators views to those of the press, "[o]rganized black public opinion" (page 260), and others.
Date: 1978
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Independence, MO, Central High School
Description: Postcard of Central High School that once stood on the corner of Pleasant Street and Maple Avenue in Independence, Missouri.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Kansas City, Missouri, Public Schools Budget, 1972-1973 [through 1991]
Description: Budget information for the school district from 1972 to 1991.
Date: 1973/1991
Object Type: Book

Title: Ashland School
Description: Interior view of school boys identified as working in the M. (Manual) T. (Training) Shop. Students and teachers are not unidentified. Photograph measures 8" x 10".
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bancroft School
Description: Exterior view of Bancroft School, initial building located at 4300 Tracy Avenue.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bancroft School
Description: Full frontal exterior view of Bancroft School located at 4300 Tracy Avenue.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Allen School
Description: Full exterior view of the Allen School.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bristol School
Description: Frontal view of Bristol School located at 15th Street and Northern Boulevard in Independence, Missouri. Annexed by Kansas City School District in 1911.
Date: 1942
Object Type: Photograph

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