Troost Elementary is one of two schools slated to close before next fall as Kansas City Public Schools looks to save money to avoid a budget shortfall and improve academic programs. Emily Curiel ...

Just after Nichols' death, major changes to the public schools in Kansas City, and across the nation, became the impetus to explicitly use Troost to divide the city. In 1955, the all-white Kansas ...

Kansas City Public Schools released a proposal Wednesday night ... If the new plan is approved later this month, Longfellow Elementary and Troost Elementary will be shuttered this summer.