The people hoping to claim seven Kansas City district schools for the Independence district talk about improving the schools and giving economically strapped communities a chance to revive.
They talk about escaping the troubled history of the Kansas City School District.
One thing they’re not talking about: race.
“Race has nothing to do with it,” said Missouri Sen. Victor Callahan, a leader in the effort to shift the seven schools in western Independence and Sugar Creek from the Kansas City district.
But if Independence residents vote Nov. 6 to put the boundary change in motion, civil rights lawyer Arthur A. Benson II assures them that race will be topic No. 1 in federal court.
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Answer: When your paper is losing subscribers and can't give it way you have to resort to Shock tactics to increase readership.
NOBODY WANTS TO BE PART OF THE KCMO SCHOOL DISTRICT. It is that simple.
