City Closes Public Schools, Stops Bankruptcy

The school board narrowly approved the plan Wednesday night to close 29 of the district's 61 schools to try to stave off bankruptcy. The closures have angered many parents, students and teachers, but administrators say they had no choice. (March 11)

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[faceclutch]

Keep fighting wars of aggression in foreign lands... hope u all go bankrupt... because you already are, morally!

[12GaugeLosAngeles]

sell those laptops, cut the employees wages, no vacation time... NAH, lets just take it from the kids.. wheres my government issued car?

[62willie]

the schools in the cities are nothing but holding cells, if you don't have a place to hold them they will form what's called flash mobs like in Philadelphia and go around beating-up white assholes, white punks, candy ass whites

[Internetheld]

BURN THE NWO!

[DillonX]

Families have moved to the suburbs & kids go to schools there.

In Kansas City itself -- the Inner City -- there used to be 75,000 children & now there are 15,000 -- so many of the school rooms are vacant.

It makes sense to consolidate - but some parents protest cause they want a school nearby & some teacher protest for fear of losing their jobs.

[Traveler2112]

That said the higher echelon city leaders should also consider taking salary cuts until things get better. This will show a sign that all levels of city govt are aware of the dire situation they are in and if they want to be reelected that might better their chances by taking one for the team.

[Traveler2112]

If there were not enough students to make it economical to sustain those schools (some were at 40% capacity) then closing them is smart and financially responsible. Its not like the kids cant still go to school. You take 2-4 partially filled schools and from those areas find a middle ground existing school and consolidate them into one combined new one. The will be staff losses and teacer cuts but the kids can still get an education which is what school is supposed to be about anyway.

[kingofthepaupers]

Jct: Har har har. Kansas City ran out of chips so they shut down their schools. Maybe if they stop teaching how to run their chips wrong, they'll figure out how to run them right and come up with the chips to pay teachers.

[M0Faux]

I didn't know the US was socialist..... I was under the impression it was anti-socialist.... (they used it as a slam on obama)

[WreakCreational]

The city council board should either all be fired or forced to resign their positions - for incompetence

[critbonez]

americunt = stupid human generation