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Deftly Definite: Mayor's School Plan Slammed

KCUR
Published July 16, 2009 at 8:56 AM CDT

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Kansas City, Mo. – Superintendents of the 15 school districts that touch or are engulfed by Kansas City have thrown cold water on Mayor Mark Funkhouser's education agenda. KCUR's Dan Verbeck reports.
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