KC district sees a good start to its new era in education
Day one of the reorganized Kansas City School District was off and running — not without some confusion in bus routes, or some parents arriving with their children at the wrong school.
Some classrooms were low on students, while other places, like Southwest Early College Campus, seemed overwhelmed with them.
But volunteers at the doors and teachers in the halls had shepherded enough kids safely into schools — decorated, pristine and cool — to set off relieved cheers throughout most of the district Monday.
Superintendent John Covington, who has launched a year of dramatic changes, was seeing for himself, coffee cup in hand, as he walked by anxious parents and teachers in the halls at Carver Elementary.
“It’s going good!” a teacher called out from her doorway
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