Gordon Parks

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Name: Gordon Parks

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Gordon Parks school must prove it merits staying open

Judge Daniel R. Green is enabling students and teachers to finish the school year, which ends in late June. A court hearing is set for July 26 during which the school will request a permanent injunction barring the Missouri Department of Elementary and ... [Published KansasCity.com - May 22 2013]

Entities: Gordon Parks, Firepower

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Judge halts closing of Kansas City charter school

KANSAS CITY, Mo. --A judge has temporarily stopped the closing of a Kansas City charter school.State education officials voted last week to pull the charter of Gordon Parks Elementary School because of the students' poor performance.School officials say ... [Published Fort Mills Times - May 22 2013]

Entities: Gordon Parks, University of Central Missouri, State Education

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Judge: Gordon Parks Elementary to remain open ? for now

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Student at Gordon Parks Elementary will be able to finish out the school year. The Missouri Board of Education planned to shut down the school on Wednesday due to low test scores, but a judge on Tuesday ruled the school can stay open ... [Published Fox 4 WDAF TV - May 22 2013]

Entities: Gordon Parks, courts

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Questions of accountability and fairness remain after charter school's reprieve

A Hail Mary effort to save the school came through Tuesday when a judge granted an injunction against the state’s order that the school shut down today.The decision by the state board of education last week was punitive, even cruel for its timing for ... [Published KansasCity.com - May 22 2013]

Entities: Gordon Parks, University of Central Missouri, Education, Special Education, Injunction

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Gordon Parks school can stay open for now

A circuit court judge on Tuesday granted a temporary injunction sought by the school after state education officials last week voted to deny the school’s charter, Gordon Parks board president Doug Curry said Tuesday.The state acted because of poor performance ... [Published KansasCity.com - May 22 2013]

Entities: Gordon Parks, Circuit Court

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

University of Central Missouri

Judge orders Gordon Parks School to stay open until late June

KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -A state district judge has ordered the Gordon Parks Charter School to remain open until the end of June.This comes after the Missouri Board of Education recently voted to force the school to shut down this month.The state board ... [Published KCTV 5 - May 22 2013]

Entities: Gordon Parks, University of Central Missouri, District Judge

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Gordon Parks closure halted by judge

_ KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Gordon Parks Elementary School got a last-minute reprieve from a judge to stay open through part of the summer.The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education ordered the Kansas City charter school be shut down earlier ... [Published KSHB - May 21 2013]

Entities: Gordon Parks

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Derrick Thomas Academy closing in June

_ KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Earlier this week, The Department of Education voted to close Gordon Parks Elementary School.Now we've learned another charter school in the Kansas City metro will close at the end of the school year. Derrick Thomas Academy will shut ... [Published KSHB - May 18 2013]

Entities: Derrick Thomas, Action, Gordon Parks

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Sad closing for school named for black renaissance man, Gordon Parks

The loss hurts the community, which then has to live with the vacant building. The closing also hurts all of the children who ever attended the school.It’s as if a big doorway to every one of those persons’ past closes for good. Children in Kansas City ... [Published KansasCity.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: Gordon Parks, Education, Private School

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

State of Missouri forces Gordon Parks Elementary School to close

Missouri acknowledged that the school has served a challenging population. State records show that nearly all of its students -- 94 percent -- qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. And 16 percent are special education students. Both of those ...(Read ... [Published Joplin - May 17 2013]

Entities: Gordon Parks, Special Education

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

State forcing Gordon Parks Elementary to close

The news, shared with staff and volunteers Thursday, stunned the school’s community, which has spent 13 years trying to serve children from the highest levels of poverty.“Where will our kids go from here?” kindergarten teacher Gladys Groves said, crying. ... [Published KansasCity.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: Gordon Parks, Sarah Potter, Education

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Re-writing the script and changing the game…Adjusting the image of Black males

CHEO TYEHIMBA TAYLORComplaints about the depiction of Black males in media is nothing new, it just continuous. Just listen to the hub-bub about Tyler the Creator’s Mountain Dew commercial. Instead of preaching to the choir, a group of talented Africans ... [Published New Pittsburgh Courier - May 09 2013]

Entities: Gordon Parks, The Game Group plc, Pittsburgh, African-Americans, Heinz Endowments

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