Kansas City, Mo., Schools Celebrate Accreditation Vote
The Kansas City, Mo., public school system averted a state takeover after state officials decided last week that the district had improved just enough to have its unaccredited status lifted.
The Missouri board of education voted unanimously April 17 to give the district "provisional accreditation." The state was poised to take control of the system by July 1 if the district failed to make necessary improvements to earn the new status.
The decision provides a morale boost to the embattled 30,000-student district that lost its accreditation in 1999 for failing to meet any of the state's 11 academic performance standards. The district now meets four standards, the minimum...
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