The money was raised, and a Taj Mahal type building program was set in motion.
That's pretty much the last I heard of it. This all went down in the mid-1990s. The situation has been dropped into the memory hole, and I assume that's because the results weren't all that inspirational. I know, I'm too cynical.
The Judge continued to raise taxes to support a gold plated school program in Kansas City, including taxes on surrounding Missouri counties who got none of the money. When he was finished, the schools were a complete, corrupt mess and have now lost their accreditation.
All the people in the surrounding Missouri counties moved to Johnson County, Kansas to avoid the taxes and then elected Kathleen Sebelius as Governor who proceeded to appoint liberals to the Kansas Supreme Court so that they could raise taxes without voter approval. See how it works.
“This is really nothing new.... a federal judge ordered Kansas City to raise property taxes to fund new school construction and many other expenses to address what the Court saw as years of segregation against that city’s African American community.
...The money was raised, and a Taj Mahal type building program was set in motion.
That’s pretty much the last I heard of it. This all went down in the mid-1990s. The situation has been dropped into the memory hole, and I assume that’s because the results weren’t all that inspirational....”
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Depending upon who is using a Taj Mahal, it can be turned into a cesspool. That may well be what happened. No amount of money will change a sow’s ear into gold.
The Kansas City School District is a complete failure, hasn’t been accredited in years