The Goodbye Kids

Educators in Center and Hickman Mills Schools worry the pandemic will make many of their students homeless.

Once a week, Waynesville High School in south-central Missouri resounds with the celebratory air of a football game. The marching band has just completed…

There's good news for a Kansas City elementary school that wasn’t sure how it would continue a successful tutoring program that helps transient students…

There were 307 students enrolled at Pitcher Elementary on the last day of school, but that number doesn’t tell the whole story.Pitcher is about as far…

Kansas City’s most vulnerable students often fall behind when their families move often. And when the kids don’t meet the state’s expectations on…

In the cold of a Kansas City winter, Fran Marion and her two teenage children wrapped themselves in coats and blankets in their frigid rental home. Marion…

Leaders in City Hall and Kansas City Public Schools are just beginning to piece together a connection between Kansas City’s high numbers of evictions and…

Landlords in Jackson County are filing hundreds of eviction requests each month, resulting in thousands of eviction orders every year. And those recorded…

Children at Ingels Elementary School in the Hickman Mills School District are used to seeing empty desks.Ingels is a “high churn” school, meaning students…

Around one in five students in KCMO change schools at least once during the school year. What does that look like in the Hickman Mills School District?…

Starting in the 1990s, Hickman Mills became a forgotten community. Middle-income families moved out. Blight moved in. Drive through the neighborhoods…

Brenda Thomas and her husband bought their house in Marlborough the 1990s because they wanted to send their daughter to a magnet program in Kansas City…