I just read an article on Prop A and it did say that some school districts wouldn't receive money in the first year because of the way the Missouri school financing formula works. And Independence was one of them that wouldn't receive any money the first year, but both Blue Springs and Lee's Summit would and here's the breakdown:

District Estimated increase
Liberty $0
North KC $1,517,167
Blue Springs $1,149,177
Lee’s Summit $1,373,595
Hickman Mills $0
Raytown $796,039
Grandview $0
Independence $0
Kansas City $0
State total $54,878,527

So if this is what you were talking about, then I apologize. However, that was for the first year and after that ISD would be receiving money, but the article didn't mention how much.

I'm still not voting for it though and I think that they should be giving that money to the school districts as was originally planned when the boats first came to the state.

Prop A is about the riverboats. They will put the money for schools into a separate account and then it will be distributed with all the school districts in Missouri.

The new arena is being built in the Blue Springs school district and some of the shopping that they plan on building over there will be in the Lee's Summit School district. Those companies and the arena will have property tax on them that will go to those school districts and then the sales tax will go to the city of Independence.

So the Independence school district will get money from Prop A, but they won't from the arena. However, after reading more about Prop A, I still won't be voting for it. I think it's a deal for the existing casinos to do what they want without fear of competition and they will be taking in more because they won't have loss limits. And from what I've read, they won't be paying that much more into the education fund.