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Tweet “Shawnee Mission teachers are under attack by a hostile state legislature,” Nancy Fritz told the Shawnee Mission School Board Monday night. Fritz, president of the Shawnee Mission chapter of the National Education Association (NEA), told the district that NEA expects more damaging legislation this session. She urged the board to “make a public show [...]
Tweet In an effort to keep our readers’ better informed about the state government actions that impact our communities, we’ll be featuring regular update columns from northeast Johnson County’s elected officials in the legislature: Rep. Barbara Bollier, Rep. Stephanie Clayton, Rep. Melissa Rooker and Sen. Kay Wolf. Check back on Mondays to find out what’s [...]
Tweet After a recent story we ran regarding the possibility of a proposed constitutional amendment in Kansas to alter the article on school finance, several readers asked us if we would ask our local legislators how they would vote on such a proposal. We did. Overall, Sen. Kay Wolf and State Reps. Barbara Bollier, Melissa [...]
Tweet Dozens of northeast Johnson County residents were among the recipients of Kansas State University’s recent awarding of more than 9,400 academic scholarships for the 2012-2013 school year. Local recipients of scholarships totally at least $1,000 and their cities of residence are listed below: Fairway: Molly Howland, Alumni Association Wabash Cannonball Scholarship, and Memorial Scholarship [...]
Tweet He’s been at the top of the college basketball world. And recently he took a group of local pre-schoolers to new heights at story time. Head Start of Shawnee Mission children last month got to enjoy a reading by Tyrel Reed, former University of Kansas basketball team player. Reed joined the little ones as [...]
Tweet A group of Shawnee Mission parents has organized to get parents involved in education, especially with a focus on understanding what is happening in the state legislature and acting on that information. Game On emerged from Belinder Elementary where a small number of parents started meeting with their state representatives and school board member [...]
Tweet It wasn’t much more than a half hour into the 50th annual Shawnee Mission College Clinic, and SM East junior Molly Ross already had a bag full of fliers. Oklahoma State, Missouri Science and Technology, Wichita State, Arizona, Iowa State — and she had more on her “to visit” list. “I know I want [...]
