March 13, 2014 Volume 4 • Issue 18 $1.00 Send community news to gladstonenews@npgco.com
Innovative partnership to benefit students
Playtime at the park
Campus to be built in city center to house SAGE, CAPS students
AMY NEAL/Staff Photo
Two-year-old Ben checks out an interactive game while at the playground on the east side of Happy Rock Park Tuesday morning, March 11, in Gladstone. The day’s high temperature was predicted to be in the low 70s. Ben was at the park with mom Meghan Schow and newborn brother Paul.
It’s an innovative idea: bring the city and local school district into a partnership designed to benefit students and the community. In 2007, North Kansas City Schools and the city of Gladstone did just that when they jointly built an indoor aquatic facility to enable year-round swim lessons and to provide a home for high school swim teams. And the community partners are about to do it again. City officials and school administrators on Tuesday, March 11, debuted plans for
their latest collaboration, Northland Innovation Campus. “We have a pretty good history of partnership, and we’re expanding on it,” said Superintendent Todd White. To be built in the heart of Gladstone’s emerging downtown development — on 69th Street between North Oak Trafficway and Cherry Street — the goal of the new 200,000-squarefoot research and education complex is to create PARTNERSHIP/Page A4
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