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Tweet Two local elementaries were among the Shawnee Mission schools recognized this month for ahead-of-the-curve efforts to reduce waste and conserve resources in Johnson County. The Johnson County Board of Commissioners named Briarwood, Brookwood and Tomahawk to its list of Green Business Award winners. Brookwood received a Gold Level honor for its program composting cafeteria [...]
Tweet The Shawnee Mission School Board on Monday passed a measure moving Brookwood Elementary families into voting area for the SM South representative on the school board — a move that’s upsetting to a number of Brookwood parents. At issue, they say, is the fact that approving the move now, as opposed to before April’s school [...]
Tweet A group of parents who protested the decision to move Brookwood Elementary into the SM South feeder area last year have a new gripe with the Shawnee Mission School Board: voter disenfranchisement. At its monthly meeting last week, the board heard the first reading of a proposal to move Brookwood-area families out of [...]
Tweet Three of the four candidates in the race for the at-large seat on the Shawnee Mission School Board will move on from the March 1 primary to the April 5 general election. But two of the four primary candidates must be eliminated. Such is the logic-problem conundrum posed by the wording of Kansas statute [...]
Tweet The Wichita Eagle earlier this week released its rankings of Kansas schools based on state assessment data, and local schools fare relatively well — though not as well as some of their counterparts in Blue Valley. SM East came in at number 40 out of the 375 Kansas high schools in the newspaper’s rankings, [...]
Tweet A memo from Shawnee Mission School District Superintendent Gene Johnson to members of the Board of Education shows Johnson removed proposals to close Antioch and Mission Valley middle schools because he’d been informed the votes weren’t there to approve them. Johnson had told the audience at the Nov. 8 board meeting he was requesting [...]
Tweet Amid the fallout from Monday’s board of education votes is one painfully obvious fact: there are some fences to be mended between SM East and SM South parents. By our count, 11 of the 44 speakers during Monday’s open forum explicitly identified themselves as SM South area patrons who wanted to see the superintendent’s [...]
Tweet For more than ten weeks, Save Mission Valley parents and their Brookwood counterparts lobbied hard for the board to reject the superintendent’s proposals. Today it looks like the only hope of keeping the schools where those parents want them lies in the federal lawsuit filed by ten area families last Friday. Tristan Duncan, an [...]
Tweet Three months to the day after Shawnee Mission superintendent Gene Johnson introduced the proposals, the board of education voted Monday night to close Mission Valley and move Brookwood to the SM South feeder pattern. The changes will go into effect for the 2011-2012 school year. The votes each passed by margins of 5-2. Board [...]
Tweet It appears that local parents will get an answer on Mission Valley’s future sooner than they’d thought. The Shawnee Mission School District has released the agenda for its Monday, Dec. 13 board of education meeting, and it includes a vote on the superintendent’s proposal to close both Mission Valley and Antioch middle schools. Many [...]
