\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy spent part of his weekend off the field, helping spotlight education efforts across the metro.Worthy helped open the 2026 Charter School Board Draft on Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium. The event is hosted by BLAQUE Kansas City, a group focused on improving outcomes for students in urban schools.The draft-style event pairs 15 metro community leaders with 10 charter schools, with the goal of filling open seats on school boards.Organizers say the effort is about building stronger leadership and representation in education.\u201cWe are unapologetically determined and driven to make sure that our educational system is improved, that our education system is represented well with the children in the community,\u201d said Kimberlyn Jones, director of program strategy and impact.Since launching in 2022, the initiative has placed about 50 community leaders on charter school boards across the Kansas City area.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy spent part of his weekend off the field, helping spotlight education efforts across the metro.<\/p>\n
Worthy helped open the 2026 Charter School Board Draft on Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium. The event is hosted by BLAQUE Kansas City, a group focused on improving outcomes for students in urban schools.<\/p>\n
The draft-style event pairs 15 metro community leaders with 10 charter schools, with the goal of filling open seats on school boards.<\/p>\n
Organizers say the effort is about building stronger leadership and representation in education.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are unapologetically determined and driven to make sure that our educational system is improved, that our education system is represented well with the children in the community,\u201d said Kimberlyn Jones, director of program strategy and impact.<\/p>\n
Since launching in 2022, the initiative has placed about 50 community leaders on charter school boards across the Kansas City area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy spent part of his weekend off the field, helping spotlight education…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[114503,15680,117511,117517,117493,117505,117514,117503,117494,346,117507,117513,99208,117499,6526,117515,113614,117508,7,117510,118,117506,110,117498,117512,15293,2438,2437,117495,117500,117502,117516,6,117520,12004,2427,117519,117497,117521,7686,117501,117518,117509,117496,1080,117504],"class_list":{"0":"post-865196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-arrowhead-event","9":"tag-arrowhead-stadium","10":"tag-arrowhead-stadium-community-event-2026","11":"tag-blaque-kansas-city","12":"tag-blaque-kc","13":"tag-blaque-kc-charter-school-draft-arrowhead-stadium","14":"tag-charter-school-board-draft","15":"tag-charter-school-boards","16":"tag-charter-schools-kansas-city","17":"tag-chiefs","18":"tag-chiefs-player-community-involvement-kc","19":"tag-chiefs-players-giving-back-kansas-city","20":"tag-chiefs-wide-receiver","21":"tag-community-leaders-kc","22":"tag-director","23":"tag-education-event","24":"tag-education-initiative","25":"tag-education-nonprofit-kansas-city-blaque-kc","26":"tag-football","27":"tag-how-charter-school-boards-are-selected-kc","28":"tag-kansas-city","29":"tag-kansas-city-charter-school-board-positions","30":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","31":"tag-kansas-city-education","32":"tag-kansas-city-education-leadership-initiative","33":"tag-kansas-city-events","34":"tag-kansascity","35":"tag-kansascitychiefs","36":"tag-kc-education","37":"tag-kc-nonprofit","38":"tag-kc-schools","39":"tag-metro-community-leader","40":"tag-nfl","41":"tag-open-seat","42":"tag-outcome","43":"tag-part","44":"tag-program-strategy","45":"tag-school-board-draft","46":"tag-strong-leadership","47":"tag-student","48":"tag-student-education-kc","49":"tag-urban-school","50":"tag-urban-school-improvement-kansas-city","51":"tag-urban-schools-kc","52":"tag-xavier-worthy","53":"tag-xavier-worthy-kansas-city-event"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}