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		<title>All Eyes on DKC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DEBATE-Kansas City (DKC) has garnered considerable media attention in recent days. Tuesday&#8217;s public debate co-sponsored the Kansas City Star,  Competing Futures: a debate over Kansas City Schools, had everyone from Mayor Sly James to National Public Radio’s Scott Simon tweeting about dynamic DKC debaters making compelling  arguments. The event was attended by 175 guests that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Express Yourself: Vote on the Future of KC Schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vote here to express your view over the future of Kansas City, Missouri Public Schools. We have three options: keep the current community board, establish a system of mayoral control or a state takeover. No matter what is system is ultimately chosen, DKC hopes we can all agree that debate should be supported! Free Blog Poll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://debatekc.edublogs.org/2012/01/31/express-yourself-vote-on-the-future-of-kc-schools/</link>
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		<title>DKC Students Treated to Special Screening of Red Tails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 19th 150 DEBATE-Kansas City (DKC) students and their coaches received the red carpet treatment at a special screening of Red Tails as a service to urban youth who achieve academically through debate. AMC generously provided the tickets through collaboration with the Heart of America chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen. Red Tails chronicles the true story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://debatekc.edublogs.org/2012/01/20/dkc-students-treated-to-special-screening-of-red-tails/</link>
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		<title>DKC and KC Star to Host: Competing Futures: a debate over KC schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DEBATE-Kansas City (DKC) is proud to be co-sponsoring a public debate over the future of Kansas City, Mo. schools with the Kansas City Star on January 31st at 7:30 p.m. on the campus of UMKC. The debate will feature three DKC alumni each arguing for a different entity (current community board, mayor or state) to control Kansas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://debatekc.edublogs.org/2012/01/19/dkc-and-kc-star-to-host-competing-futures-a-debate-over-the-future-of-kc-schools/</link>
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		<title>New Policy Topic for 2012-13: Transportation Infrastructure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The high school policy debate topic for 2012-13 will be: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its transportation infrastructure investment in the United States. Wikipedia (we do not advise formally citing Wikipedia) lists the following as transportation infrastructure; Transportation infrastructure Road and highway networks, including structures (bridges, tunnels, culverts, retaining walls), signage and markings, electrical systems (street lighting and traffic lights), edge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://debatekc.edublogs.org/2012/01/17/new-policy-topic-for-2012-13-transportation-infrastructure/</link>
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		<title>First Leg of the DKC City Championship a Success!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DEBATE-Kansas City held the high school policy debate portion of its annual City Championship December 3th, 2011 on the campus of UMKC. Teams from across the city gathered to debate about the United States space policy. This is the second year DKC has broken the Championship into two parts. The first wave is held exclusively [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://debatekc.edublogs.org/2011/12/14/first-leg-of-the-dkc-city-championship-a-success/</link>
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		<title>Fall Power Rankings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DKC is proud to release our fist set of Power Rankings for the 2011-2012 season. The current totals are based on all tournaments held to date. In policy debate the teams are ranked based on total number of wins with speaker points breaking ties. In student congress places are determined by combined point totals from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://debatekc.edublogs.org/2011/12/14/fall-power-rankings/</link>
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		<title>Arrowhead Hosts Huge Middle School Weeknight Tournament</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 17th Arrowhead Middle School hosted one of the largest middle school tournaments in DEBATE-Kansas City’s (DKC) history. Just over 250 middle school students from across the city competed as part of DKC’s weeknight tournament series. The Foreign Language Academy (FLA) debate squad earned an impressive array of awards in both policy debate and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://debatekc.edublogs.org/2011/12/01/arrowhead-hosts-huge-middle-school-weeknight-tournament/</link>
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		<title>DKC Debaters Do Battle at Patton Junior High</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The second leg of the DEBATE-Kansas City’s (DKC) weeknight tournament was held at November 8th at Patton Junior High on the grounds of Fort Leavenworth. To DKC’s knowledge this tournament represented a unique first: it was the first time an Urban Debate League tournament was held on a military post. Students from across the league [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://debatekc.edublogs.org/2011/11/28/dkc-debaters-do-battle-at-patton-junior-high/</link>
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		<title>DKC Middle School Tournament Season Blasts Off at Center</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Center Middle School hosted DKC’s first middle school debate tournament of the season. More than 200 students from 16 schools across Kansas City engaged in two rounds of policy debate and student congress. The competition was fierce, spirited and participants were excited for the season to finally begin. Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy (LATCA) continued [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://debatekc.edublogs.org/2011/11/04/dkc-middle-school-tournament-season-blasts-off-at-center/</link>
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