Education
American Dreaming |’Putting Together Legacies’
This story is part of a series of reports from Johnson County Community College journalism students working with KCPT’s Hale Center for Journalism to report on hopes and obstacles for achieving the American dream. The reporting is part of KCPT’s Re:Dream project. William “Bill” Brown emerges from the workshop at his home on his…
Lee’s Summit Students Win Cybersecurity Crown
And the winner is …. Team Sudo from the Lee’s Summit School District. The high school club from Summit Technology Academy earned top honors in a 12-team field at the finals of the CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Defense Competition, held last week in Baltimore. Taking its name from an abbreviation for an old computer command…
American Dreaming | A Rare Student, A Rare Dream
This story is part of a series of reports from Johnson County Community College journalism students working with KCPT’s Hale Center for Journalism to report on hopes and obstacles for achieving the American dream. The reporting is part of KCPT’s Re:Dream project. Henry Lubega just wanted to get out alive. Lubega, a student at…
New KCMO Schools Chief Looking to Stay
The average tenure of a superintendent in an urban school district is about three years, and that trend has pretty much held true in Kansas City Public Schools (KCPS) for decades. But in introducing himself to the community this morning, the school district’s newest superintendent, Mark T. Bedell, 41, said in that sense he is…
More Charter School Real Estate News
Another Kansas City, Missouri, charter school has secured classroom space. Citizens of the World Kansas City (CWCKC) said Thursday that it’s a week or two away from finalizing a lease agreement on a building on the northeast corner of Broadway and Armour boulevards. That news followed Wednesday’s announcement by Academy for Integrated Arts that it…