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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.
-- "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.