Proposal would disband failing Missouri school districts

Failing school districts in Missouri could soon be disbanded and replaced with a state-run entity that reports directly to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

The Missouri Board of Education heard a proposal yesterday afternoon that calls for a drastic departure in how the state addresses failing schools as part of a different approach for the coming year, according to a report by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The state would only operate individual schools during the transition period. Ultimately, nonprofit groups would run the schools, similar to charter schools.

The proposal by the Indianapolis-based Cities for Education Entrepreneurship Trust is one of several the board will consider.

The Post-Dispatch reports, when hired in August, CEE-Trust was asked to develop an improvement plan specifically for the unaccredited Kansas City Public Schools, but one that could also be implemented elsewhere in Missouri.

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