"Kansas City's public skoo district - A case study in Liberalism pumping good money after bad, the Progressive's MO - It's about character. discipline and compitition, not ego and coddling
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Randall Hoven
The AP reports that the Kansas City school system is closing 29 of its
61 schools due to budget problems -- a $50 million shortfall. The AP
quotes KC Councilwoman Sharon Sanders Brooks on the background of the
story.
"The urban core has suffered white flight post-the 1954 U.S. Supreme
Court decision Brown v. the Board of Education, blockbusting by the real
estate industry, redlining by banks and other financial institutions,
retail and grocery store abandonment."
There might be another explanation, one that the AP barely mentions.
The court decision that brought about KC schools' demise was not the
1954 decision, but a 1985 one. The case was summarized by the Cato
Institute in 1998.
"In 1985 a federal district judge took partial control over the troubled
Kansas City, Missouri, School District (KCMSD) on the grounds that it
was an unconstitutionally segregated district with dilapidated
facilities and students who performed poorly. In an effort to bring the
district into compliance with his liberal interpretation of federal law,
the judge ordered the state and district to spend nearly $2 billion over
the next 12 years to build new schools, integrate classrooms, and bring
student test scores up to national norms."
The judicial branch ordered the legislative branch to spend money, and
told it exactly how to do it.
"Kansas City spent as much as $11,700 per pupil -- more money per pupil,
on a cost of living adjusted basis, than any other of the 280 largest
districts in the country. The money bought higher teachers' salaries, 15
new schools, and such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool with
an underwater viewing room, television and animation studios, a robotics
lab, a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with
simultaneous translation capability, and field trips to Mexico and
Senegal. The student-teacher ratio was 12 or 13 to 1, the lowest of any
major school district in the country." How did that turn out?
"The results were dismal. Test scores did not rise; the black-white gap
did not diminish; and there was less, not greater, integration."
That was in 1998. But that's not all. In 2000, the Los Angeles Times
reported a Reuters story.
"Kansas City's public school district has become the first in the nation
to lose its accredited status by failing all Missouri's performance
standards, and could be abolished unless it improves, officials said
Wednesday."
And now the KC school system is broke and has to close down half its
schools. This, after a court-ordered $2 billion injection.
I would call that $2 billion quite a stimulus for the KC system. See
how well it turned out?
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Originally posted by Leroy N. Soetoro, thanks
Speeders & Drunk Drivers Kill Kids
$9a6e...@unlimited.newshosting.com:
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> "The results were dismal. Test scores did not rise; the black-white gap
> did not diminish; and there was less, not greater, integration."
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It's time to say what everybody knows. Blacks just don't have the brains of
whites. Hispanics are nearly as bad. And nobody knows this better than the
blacks and browns.
Dakota
wrote:
And I'm sure you'll admit that whites don't have the brains of Asians.
Freddrick Smith
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:11:59 -0500, Speeders& Drunk Drivers Kill Kids
humans rule the planet. Humans are the smartest beings on the planet.
Bob LeChevalier
>"CB" <C...@PrayForMe.com> wrote in news:4ba350aa$0$4893
>$9a6e...@unlimited.newshosting.com:
>> "The results were dismal. Test scores did not rise; the black-white gap
>> did not diminish; and there was less, not greater, integration."
>
>It's time to say what everybody knows. Blacks just don't have the brains of
>whites. Hispanics are nearly as bad.
You don't have the brains of either, or indeed of any real human
being, as evidence by your posting this crap.
lojbab
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