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The Shawnee Heights USD 450 school board on Monday chose Hutchinson public schools official Sheila Meggers to be the district's next superintendent.

With momentum going for it, Shawnee Heights Highs agriculture program may even soon get a $400,000, state-of-the-art greenhouse.

Parents said a decision by the Shawnee Heights Board of Education to keep five challenged books could open the district to a lawsuit.

Efforts to ban the LGBT-themed book "Gender Queer" at a Topeka-area school wont make people stop reading it. If anything, theyll be more intrigued.

A state legislator is among those who have requested Shawnee Heights USD 450 remove the 2019 book "Gender Queer" from the high school library.

Sen. Rick Kloos insisted the Shawnee Heights superintendent immediately remove the autobiography "Gender Queer" from the high school library.

Seaman USD 345s first candidate for superintendent is no stranger to Topeka.

Silver Lake Jr./Sr. High has its next principal. The Silver Lake Board of Education on Wednesday evening approved the hiring of Ryan Luke, the current principal at St. Marys Jr./Sr. High, to be the districts next secondary principal. Current principal Brad Womack said the district was recommending Luke because he  "brings forward thinking vision of education that will allow Silver Lake students to continue to be highly successful both in and out of the classroom, as well as in their post-secon...

Dawn Johnson, superintendent at Nickerson-South Hutchinson Unified School District 309, interviewed with the board Thursday evening. A Kansas native, Johnson attended Wichita State University and taught secondary-level English in various state districts. She later became a principal of Little River High School and later an assistant superintendent in that district. She later transferred to USD 309 as an assistant superintendent before receiving a Wichita State doctorate and becoming superintend...

Shawnee Heights next superintendent could be a familiar face to the school district. Silver Lake Unified School District 372 superintendent Tim Hallacy on Monday was the third out of four candidates the Shawnee Heights Board of Education interviewed to be the districts next superintendent. A Shawnee County educator for nearly 30 years, Hallacy first started his career as a teacher at Silver Lake before transitioning to administration in 1999 as an assistant principal and athletics director at ...