Kansas City Schools

In an interesting twist to the longstanding problems of city vs. suburbs issues, the mostly white portions of the Kansas City School District have voted to break away from the struggling district, leaving the predominantly poor, African American core behind. Kansas City is a lot different from St. Louis City; unlike St. Louis, Kansas City's incorporated limits consist of not just the urban core, but a large portion of the "suburban" portion of the city. Heck, up north Kansas City is still farmland within its city limits.

Read the story here.

I have to wonder if this idea might come to St. Louis; could South City schools theoretically break off from the larger whole? Look for this same thing to occur in other major American cities, if not St. Louis.