District Administration - January 2012 - (Page 28)
John Covington speaks with students at Kettering High School in Detroit last fall. Covington left the Kansas City schools to become chancellor of Michigan’s Education Achievement Authority. It’s a new statewide school district for Michigan’s neediest schools in Detroit with no staff and no budget.
Kansas City Public Schools Interim Superintendent Stephen Green speaks at a town hall meeting at the Paseo Academy last fall to discuss the state’s expected decision declaring the district unaccredited.
Above: Kansas City Public Schools’ board president Airick Leonard West, second from right, announced that the board is trying to work out a solution for the sudden resignation of former Superintendent John Covington last August. Top Right: Mayor: Kansas City Mayor Sylvester James reads to kindergarteners at Wendell Phillips Elementary in the Kansas City district. The mayor and 30 community partner organizations have begun a grade-level reading program to provide monetary and technical resources to get every child to read at their grade level by third grade.
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