International Response to KCMSD's School Closures

And right now, the top story on education on most international media's radar isn't yesterday's 5-4 vote to close 29 of the 61 schools currently in the Kansas City (Mo.) School District #30. It's a Mississippi high school's decision to cancel their prom, potentially in response to a request from a student to bring their lesbian girlfriend to the dance and show up in a tuxedo. In fact, the BBC, Daily Telegraph, as well as Canada's Globe and Mail and Toronto Star have yet to post a story about the situation in KCMSD.

Meanwhile, two major British papers have carried the story. The Guardian featured a commentary from liberal think-tank fellow Sasha Abramsky of New York, where he describes the situation in KC as the event schools in California want to avoid. He writes: “Kansas City might well represent a glimpse of a depressing American future: one in which those with resources opt out, en masse, from any and all public services, leaving the public sector to stumble drunkenly from one crisis to the next, a miserable-looking shadow of once-great glories.”

The Murdoch-owned Times published a straight-forward brief from their Washington correspondent.

If you find any articles in international press (even if it's a rehash of wire copy), please feel free to comment with a link to it.