MORE² Kansas Voices for Public Education

Sunday, February 28, 2010

3:30-5:00 p.m.

Second Baptist Church of Olathe

331 North Kansas Avenue, Olathe, Kansas

This meeting will feature a panel discussion and dialog with superintendents Dr. Patricia All, Olathe USD 233, and Dr. Gene Johnson, Shawnee Mission USD 513,  to discuss the impact of Kansas funding cuts on education and strategies for preventing further cuts.  The group will also explore ways that MORE² can build relationships with these school districts in an effort to ensure high quality, equitable public education for al Kansas children. 

Please join us for this important disciussion. 

 

Thursday, August 27, 2009  6:00 p.m.
Zion Grove Missionary Baptist Church
2801 Swope Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri

A piper will pipe, clergy will process, policy makers will listen, ordinary citizens will tell their stories and we will all pray for a new transportation policy that transcends the boundaries of race and poverty to bring equity to our bi-state metro region.

 Over three hundred residents from across the bi-state metro area are expected to attend this important MORE² sponsored public transit summit. Policy makers slated to attend the event include: U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, representing Missouri; staff persons from Senator Pat Roberts’, Senator Sam Brownback’s and Representative Dennis Moore’s offices representing Kansas.

Greater Kansas City has hundreds of miles of roads that intersect our bi-state municipalities. To some these highways serve as connecting paths from one point to another; to others they are concrete canyons that garrison them within their impoverished neighborhoods; to others they are obstacles to be conquered on the way to mastering the public transit system. The impact of urban sprawl and the far flung communities of our metropolitan area, make the new transportation bill a major concern to the future of Greater Kansas City.

Join with us to make a difference.

Over 600 people of faith came from all over the metro area to join together in support of racial and economic equity. Included in the audience were 120 leaders from Gamaliel affiliates from across the country who were in Overland Park, Kansas for the annual African American Leadership Conference. Rev. Dr. James Forbes gave a rousing call for the individuals in the room to work together on issues that will change our communities for the better. MORE² leaders, in a statement of solidarity, signed over 500 postcards to their Senators (representing 11 states) in support of the Dream Act. Overall, participants called this Fourth Annual imagine Banquet the best and most compelling event that MORE² has organized in the organization’s short history.

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