KCPS breaks ground on new campus for school district
It's the first project funded by earlier this month.
Kansas City to turn on 200+ fountains Wednesday afternoon
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Empowerment Campus will be at 42nd and Indiana.
This is replacing where the old Mary Harmon Weeks Elementary School used to stand. It closed back in 2012.
The new campus will also have a 100% Head Start-related early childhood center and a family empowerment center with a food pantry, a clothing closet, a mini laundromat, dental clinic and a limited medical clinic where students can get physicals.
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Officials want the $68 million project to be ready for students in the fall of 2027, a little more than two years from now.
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