Kansas City schools chief: ‘We are NOT the worst district’
Interim superintendent points to improvements and rails against “campaign political rhetoric.”
BY JOE ROBERTSON AND LYNN HORSLEY
The Kansas City Star
Fallout from a meeting between Mayor Sly James and the U.S. education secretary brought out the ire in Kansas City Interim Superintendent Steve Green on Thursday.
“I refuse to let the district be used as a platform for campaign political rhetoric,” Green said.
The school superintendent was reacting to media reports that took Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s comments to James about one damning data point and suggested that the troubled school district may be the worst in the nation.
“We are not the worst district in the nation,” Green said.
Interim superintendent Steve Green
