{"id":18099,"date":"2010-02-24T17:14:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/kansas_city_considers_closing_31_of_61_schools\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T17:14:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:14:43","slug":"kansas_city_considers_closing_31_of_61_schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18099","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City considers closing 31 of 61 schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the pantheon of unpopular moves by school superintendents, perhaps none rivals what John Covington wants to do.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with declining enrollment and a $50 million budget shortfall, the Kansas City, Mo., schools chief wants the school board to close as many as 31 of the city&#8217;s 61 schools and lay off one-fourth of its employees \u201d\u201d including 285 teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Covington wants it done by the time school starts in fall. A vote could come in March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bottom line is the quality of education we&#8217;re offering children in Kansas City is not good enough,&#8221; he says. &#8220;One reason it&#8217;s not good enough is that we&#8217;ve tried to spread our resources over far too many schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2010-02-24-kansascity24_st_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the pantheon of unpopular moves by school superintendents, perhaps none rivals what John Covington wants to do. Faced with declining enrollment and a $50 million budget shortfall, the Kansas City, Mo., schools chief wants the school board to close<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18099\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,615,149,111,151,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-city-government","category-economy","category-education","category-politics-in-general","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}