Missouri strips the Kansas City, Missouri, School District of accreditation
Anything bad happen to the Kansas City, Missouri, School District? Oh, yeah.
The Missouri Board of Education voted unanimously to strip the district’s accreditation, which goes bye-bye on January 1, 2012. The district gets two years to try to establish provisional accreditation, meaning it’ll have to meet six of the 14 standards that the state requires. KCTV5 reports that the district is meeting only three standards — and all of those standards are outside the area of academics.
If the district fails, the state will take over.
The district put a positive spin on the situation, issuing a press release saying the state board decision “is the first step to help the district regain full accreditation.”
“While we are disappointed with this decision, we understand the basis upon which it was made,” interim Superintendent R. Stephen Green said in a statement. “Student achievement remains our top priority, and we will couple with this a focus on restoration and recovery of our accreditation status.”
