Two Kansas City charter schools didn’t get permission to stay open. What happens now? 2%
KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR - By Maria Benevento - 5/24/2026, 9:00 AM
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In January 2025, Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy got bad news from its charter school sponsor, the Missouri Charter Public School Commission. The Kansas City school — founded in 1999, named after a local minister and focused on “entrepreneurial leadership” — wasn’t being invited to renew the charter that allows it to operate. After this... more