KCMSD Desegregation Case

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Status of Professional Devolopment:



  • Report on School Visits, 2001-2002
  • Response to Court Order of October 2, 2001, Nov. 5, 2001
  • Discovery Letter to KCMSD, October 19, 2001
  • List of Documents Requested, October 19, 2001
  • Update on national search for new Holliday Principal
  • Investigator's Public Notice
  • Plaintiffs' Additional Response to KCMSD's Progress Report, Sept. 14, 2001.
  • Attachment A, Sept. 14, 2001.
  • Letter to State Board and DESE September 6, 2001.
  • Order Authorizing Investigation of the KCMSD, June 19, 2001
  • Proposed Accountability Plan
  • Petition for Writ of Prohibition, April 20, 2001
  • 8th Circuit Court of Appeals En Banc Opinion

    • United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit

    The only known photograph of the Court in session.

    The only known photograph of the Court in session.

    The Judges are, from left to right:

    Judges Bye, M.S. Arnold, Loken, Bowman, R. Arnold, Heaney, Chief Judge Wollman, McMillian, J. Gibson, Beam, Hansen, and Murphy.

    Seated at counsel table to the left are Jamie Kathryn Lansford, and Arthur Benson. Arguring with his back to the camera is Mark Thornhill.

    Taken by Clerk of the Court, Michael Gans. May 16, 2000, during arguments en banc in the Kansas City school desegregation case.



    Qualitative Evaluations: Reports of In-School Observations

  • 1999
  • 1998


  • Motion for Stay Pending Appeal, Dec. 15, 1999
  • Desegregation History
  • Citations to all reported opinions in this case
  • State Board of Education: Presentation of Arthur Benson, October 21, 1999
  • Missouri's Vision for Missouri Schools
  • Missouri Assessment Plan, analysis of 1998 results
  • Letter to Dr. Murphy, Feb. 24, 1999
  • Letter to Dr. Murphy, March 29, 1999
  • Letter to Dr. Murphy, June 21, 1999 (concerning 1999 Curriculum report, below)
  • Montessori Program Study
  • Montessori Long Range Planning Committee Reply to KCMSD Report