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March 11, 2010

Kansas City Announces Major School Closures, Layoffs
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In Missouri, the Kansas City Board of Education has voted to close
almost half of the city’s public schools amidst a $50 million deficit.
The so-called “Right-Size” plan would shutter twenty-eight of Kansas
City’s sixty-one schools and cut 700 of 3,000 jobs, including 285
positions for teachers.



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