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  • Jay Mathews Challenge
  • Test Results
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  • The 71 Acre site
  • Other school capacity needs
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  • The Budget
  • Schools Budget Priorities
  • New High School Costs To-Date
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Construction

Since 1998, the School Board has been floundering with the problems of increasing capacity to handle the increased number of pupils. Nine years! Nine years of increasing numbers of trailers, with no real solutions offered by the School Board.

The current School Board has some serious problems with the new high school project currently being studied on the 71 acre site, while it has badly neglected the other school capacity needs.

There ARE better ways to deal with these issues, more efficient ways which will address the entire scope of needs in a coherent, financially responsible manner - ways which will finally get the job done, and get rid of those trailers.

"Such a degree of learning [should be] given to every member of the society as will enable him to read, to judge and to vote understandingly on what is passing."

--Thomas Jefferson to Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1805

"We looked at the problems facing America and realized that if we are going to be a competitive nation, we need a far better educated populace than we have now. The American K-12 public education has gone from No. 1 in the world some 30 years ago, to No. 19. We thought, This is bad for the country and bad for our democracy."

--Eli Broad - multi-billionaire, (founder - SunAmerica). Has now established The Broad Residency in Urban Education.