Training Teachers For Urban Schools

Brittney McGinley, founding member and communications director for the Kansas City Teacher Residency Program (KCTR), joins host Craig Lubow. KCTR works closely with teachers, partners, and staff to build a strong community of educators and advocates for Kansas City’s most vulnerable students. The Kansas City Teacher Residency is a non-profit organization that works to achieve results for students, schools, and communities by training and retaining urban teachers at the highest need schools, and as a result the Kansas City Teacher Residency will be come the model for teacher preparation across the country.

Following the interview, two news reports that were filed by Spencer Graves will be covered. First, a plaque was dedicated on December 1 to memorialize the lynching in Jackson County of Levi Harrington. He was lynched in the west bottoms on April 3, 1882 after being accused of shooting a police officer. The newspapers later reported that Harrington was innocent and no one was ever held accountable for his lynching. Second, trespass charges against five anti-nuke protestors were dismissed last Friday, Dec. 7, when the planned witness for the prosecution failed to appear.

The alleged trespass occurred last Memorial Day, May 28, when five people crossed a line onto the property of the Kansas City National Nuclear Security Campus, just north of the former Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base south of Kansas City. This alleged trespass occurred as part of an annual anti-nuke demonstration organized by PeaceWorks-Kansas City. The five defendants were Henry Stoever; Tom Fox, Linda “Lu” Mountenay, Jordan “Sunny” Hamrick, and Brian Terrell. Stoever, Mountenay, and Hamrick serve on the Board of PeaceWorks-Kansas City; Stoever is their President. Fox is CEO and President of National Catholic Reporter. Terrell is a Catholic Worker and national leader of Voices for Creative Nonviolence.

www.peaceworkskc.org/

www.ncronline.org/news/justice/trial-turns-impromptu-anti-nuke-symposium-when-witness-fails-show

www.kcteach.org

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