Isn’t KC the city where some judge made them spend more than $1B to upgrade their schools so they looked like Phillips Exeter Academy?
It was $2 billion. According to the article:
For the past few years, the district has been plowing through the large reserves it built up when money from a $2 billion court-ordered desegregation plan was flooding its coffers.
And now the district is trying to "erase a projected $50 million budget shortfall" by closing nearly half the schools (which are only half full to begin with, according to the article) and cutting "about 700 of the district's 3,000 jobs".
Read that again, and do the math.
And always remember - - it's all whitey's fault.
The KC schools WERE plated in gilt after his ''decision''. Just another do-gooder dildo. His ''decision'' not only didn't improve anything, it laid a ridiculous tax burden on residents of Jackson County...to date, world without end.
The students are still the same lot that they'd been before, in about 94% of cases. Dumbshjts, can't add 30+43, can't name any 10 presidents, and, I daresay, would cheerfully sign a petition that dihydrogen monoxide should be banned by law, insofar as said substance is involved in the occasional drowning.
And the taxpayers still get to pay, world without end, for Black's idiocy, and sponsoring yet more stupidity from the assorted scumbums in the teachers' unions.
The first time that any lawmaker proposes a bill that allows citizens to execute anti-Constitutionalists who happen to be sitting on one or another bench, I shall regain some hope for the survival of the American republic.
Taxation went on for at least a decade and many families that lived near KS State Line, moved out of MO entirely to avoid excessive taxation.
KCMO School District went on a spending spree that, to this day, defies belief, i.e. Computer labs that make many large companies jealous, except computers disappeared or no one knew how to install or operate; French magnet schools taught exclusively in French(?????); School specializing in the Performing Arts; on and on.
Unfortunately the reason for KC's miserable performance was not replaced: the administration and most of the Union teachers!
School system no longer is accredited or on probation now, schools that resemble collapsed public housing, on and on.
The KCMO public school enrollment no longer supports as many schools, many schools are in such disrepair that it is not cost-effective to inhabit.
Proving yet again that throwing billions at a problem will not solve that problem - especially if it is public education.