The Cordish Companies and the Kansas City Power & Light District Award Two Years Free Rent to Local Teacher

Brooke Wurtz was teaching her third grade classroom about the planets and stars at Faxon Elementary, when local media and Kansas City Public Schools staff flooded her room. She was under the impression that her class was being recognized for their adoption of a cow named “Fruit Loop.”

Instead, she won a free 2-year lease for a downtown Kansas City apartment. In the middle of her lesson on Nov. 20, Wurtz was greeted by Kansas City Public Schools’ superintendent Jennifer Collier, and John Moncke, president of the Kansas City Power & Light District. The news the two presented made Wurtz emotional, as her classroom cheered her on.

It was all part of the Power & Light District and The Cordish Companies’ seventh annual apartment giveaway, which partners with KCPS to provide a local educator with a free 2-year lease at the Midland Lofts in downtown Kansas City. Last year’s winner was Imani Riley-Jones, a social studies teacher at Northeast High School.

Wurtz said that she works multiple jobs and that her biggest stressor this year was that working so much would be “taking me away from the classroom.” “I feel so grateful, I’ve worked really hard,” Wurtz said. “My family’s worked really hard, so for something like this to happen, it just doesn’t feel believable,” Wurtz said.

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