I like those odds

Kansas City closing nearly half, 29 of its 51 61 schools. Buh. Interesting points FTA:

-- "Covington has stressed that the district's buildings are only half-full as its population has plummeted amid political squabbling and chronically abysmal test scores."

-- "Many students have left for publicly funded charter schools, private and parochial schools and the suburbs."

-- "Fewer students means less money from the state. 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."

This is going to get worse before it gets better.