Gordon Parks gets brief reprieve

Gordon Parks Elementary School can finish out its extended school year, which last into June. The decision came today while supporters were having a press conference urging the state to reconsider closing the school. Gordon Parks Elementary ...

2013 graduate celebrates the diversity of her urban high school

As she prepared to graduate last weekend, Tiffani Painter said coming to DeLaSalle Charter High School from her small rural community changed her life – in a good way. Photo by Mike Sinclair. Tiffani Painter was living a normal life in Warsaw, ...

Volker charter school’s closing shocks staff and students

The closing of Gordon Parks Elementary Charter School is a tragedy, according to one of the school’s founders. Dorothy Curry said yesterday that the school’s board, teachers and students were shocked to learn the State Board of Education ...

School gets grant to expand relationship with local farmers

At DeLaSalle Charter High School, 3740 Forest, Chef Brian McAree says the students are “slowly starting to eat their vegetables.” Recently, he says, they even asked for more asparagus. Fresh, and local, vegetables are just one step the school ...

DeLeSalle charter school competes in sport stacking

Over at De La Salle Charter School this morning, and across the world, students were competing in the Guiness World Record sport stacking contest. The charter school at 3740 Forest serves urban students who need an alternative to traditional ...

Acadèmie Lafayette invites the neighborhood in for a tour

For some community members, last night’s open house was the first chance to see what’s going on in the former Longan School at 3421 Cherry. The school was the first of the “repurposed” Kansas City Schools to be reopened. It’s now a ...

Parents build playground for Academie Lafayette students

Wesley Wilson, an Academie Lafayette parent, is one of about 20 devoted workers building a playground for students at the new school in Hyde Park. Last evening he was working on a large climbing wall. Just weeks ago the new Academie Lafayette ...