(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — The Kansas City school district has released a school-improvement plan that was developed with a local coalition.
The plan’s submission Tuesday to the State Board of Education comes one day after a consultant released a competing proposal. The consultant’s plan calls for a state-run entity to recruit community groups and educators to operate schools in failing districts.
Unlike that proposal, the new plan calls for the unaccredited Kansas City districts to be designated as provisionally accredited. That would stop students from taking advantage of a state law to transfer to accredited schools. Instead, schools would be accredited individually.
Struggling schools would pick from interventions that include adding teacher training and extending the length of the school year. Schools that are unable to improve could be reconstituted or closed.
Unlike that proposal, the new plan calls for the unaccredited Kansas City districts to be designated as provisionally accredited. That would stop students from taking advantage of a state law to transfer to accredited schools. Instead, schools would be accredited individually.
Struggling schools would pick from interventions that include adding teacher training and extending the length of the school year. Schools that are unable to improve could be reconstituted or closed.
