We promote access to quality public school options in Kansas City by supporting new and expanding schools, as well as school turnaround initiatives, with proven or promising approaches to improving student outcomes.
Great Schools visits create new dialogues about public education and how to raise expectations for what’s possible in Kansas City public schools.
Senior fellow, Alicia Herald, explains how teachers' understanding of their learning style and values can ensure the right placement within schools.
Amy Gale, program officer in Education, reflects on her visit to the Drew Charter School, the model for a new Kansas City school opening this fall.
Piel Hollingsworth of SchoolWorks shares about her organization's role in the Kauffman Foundation's Great Schools Visits and the potential they have to transform Kansas City schools.
Ongoing Kauffman Foundation grant matched funding by Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, who satisfied all greater Kansas City donorschoose.org projects during #bestschoolday national campaign
New and expanding schools are offering Kansas City families more options. Aaron North discusses which models the Kauffman Foundation seeks to support.
After studying famous African-American authors, artists, scientists and politicians, Ewing Marion Kauffman School students shared what they learned with the public in a celebration of Black History Month on February 18, 2016. The school welcomed more than 500 visitors to the event, in which students turned back time and transformed themselves into historical figures. Guests heard from icons such as Bessie Coleman, Hattie McDaniel and George Washington Carver.
The Teach For America 25th Anniversary Summit prompted Jacqueline Erickson Russell to return with hope for improving education for Kansas City students.
Urban schools and students are thriving in cities across the United States—What can we learn from them?
Aaron North, Kauffman's vice president of Education, talks about the impact of two emails he received last year.
