SchoolSmartKC

SchoolSmartKC and Kansas City Public Schools have partnered to identify new opportunities for selected schools that have shown academic improvement.

Awais Sufi has spent the last 18 months traversing this Midwestern town in search of solutions to its educational shortcomings. He’s met with parents, educators, philanthropists, faith leaders and anyone else with a vested interest in education.

There’s a new nonprofit in town, and it’s going after public schools in Kansas City with more than $50 million to help improve student performance within the next decade.

In our twelfth episode, RealClearEducation editor Christopher Beach travels to Kansas City, Missouri, to talk with Awais Sufi, President and CEO of SchoolSmartKC, about the launch of his new education nonprofit dedicated to closing the achievement gap in Kansas City public schools.

SchoolSmartKC, a non-profit collaborative fund that seeks to dramatically improve the performance of schools in the Kansas City Public School system, announced that they will make an initial investment of $563,000 to support low-income students at district and charter schools in the area.

Initial $563,000 Grant Supports Low-Income Students at 10 Schools

On March 7, 2017, SchoolSmartKC organized a charter bus tour to Tulsa, Oklahoma with the ten participating schools in the new Communities in Schools (CIS) program announced at the SchoolSmartKC launch.

SchoolSmartKC partner IFF, a leading Community Development Financing Institution (CDFI), has released its latest assessment of the accessibility of quality schools across neighborhoods in Kansas City.