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Tweet A recommendation to close Westwood View Elementary is not moving forward, Shawnee Mission School Superintendent Gene Johnson said after Monday’s board meeting. A strategic planning committee meeting earlier this year made several recommendations for facilities upgrades and closures. Among the schools targeted for closure by the report were Westwood View located off Rainbow on [...]
Tweet You can bet that administrators for the Shawnee Mission School District and the cities of Westwood, Westwood Hills and Mission Woods are spending plenty of time thinking about what Google Fiber means for the future of beloved Westwood View. The neighborhood elementary school, which has one of the smallest enrollments in the entire district [...]
Tweet A committee report to Shawnee Mission School District superintendent Gene Johnson recently identified Westwood View Elementary as a potential target for closure as the district continues to explore cost cutting measures. In Wednesday’s Kansas City Star, columnist Steve Rose speculates about whether the tiny — and much beloved — neighborhood school, which produces some [...]
Tweet One of the the Shawnee Mission district’s top performing and most beloved elementary schools could close if Superintendent Gene Johnson pursues the recommendations of a strategic planning committee report submitted to his office. The committee, made up of 30 district administrators, teachers, principals, parents, students and staff, recommended that Westwood View Elementary be closed [...]
Tweet Amanda Jessee’s fifth-grade students at Westwood View are now officially being taught by the best American History teacher in the state. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History named Jessee 2011’s Kansas History Teacher of the Year earlier this summer, a distinction that automatically made her eligible for the National History Teacher of the [...]
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 “Your word is ‘champion’” “Champion. Could you use it in sentence?” “Mission Valley seventh grader Anna Molteni is the champion of the Johnson County Spelling Bee.” Well — co-champion, technically. Molteni tied with Zach Winterman, a seventh grader at St. Michael the Archangel, in the county’s spelling bee last weekend, earning her a spot [...]
