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
Mission Valley and Brookwood parents now pin hopes on federal lawsuit
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
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After three months of contentious struggle, votes met with silence
For three months, the community has been up in arms over the proposals to close Mission Valley and realign Brookwood. But when the votes finally came Monday, there was nothing
Mission Valley not saved: Board votes to close Mission Valley, send Brookwood students to SM South
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
New poll: Are you going to the board of education meeting?
It looks (for now at least) like the board of education will be voting on Mission Valley’s future at tonight’s meeting, which starts at 7 p.m. at SM West. Take
In light of Mission Valley controversy, upset parents file federal lawsuit
Claiming the state’s budget crisis is forcing the board of education to consider measures that would destroy successful public schools, a group of ten families filed a lawsuit against the
Roesland realignment puts Indian Hills PTA in tricky position
The Shawnee Mission School District board of education’s recent actions have put Indian Hills teachers and PTA members in a difficult situation: most would prefer not to see Mission Valley
New poll: Will Mission Valley be open for the 2011-2012 school year?
It’s like deja vu all over again. After not taking action on the items at its Nov. 8 meeting, the Shawnee Mission School District board of education will vote Monday
Brookwood, Mission Valley’s futures on Monday’s board of education agenda
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.
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Photos: Coach Sherman, Lancer football team behind the scenes at Arrowhead
Big thanks to SM East athletic director Jeremy Higgins and Harbinger photo editor Lindsey Hartnett for passing along some shots of coach Chip Sherman’s Chiefs High School Coach of the
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SM East community mourns loss of 2010 grad, promising journalist
Students and teachers this week are mourning the loss of Elizabeth McGranahan, a 2010 graduate of SM East who lost a battle to a pair of rare diseases last Wednesday.
Lancers pull out season opening win against SM South in overtime
They may have needed some extra time on the clock to do it, but the SM East boys basketball team opened its 2010-11 campaign with a win at SM South
Lady Lancers fall to Aquinas in season opener
So maybe it wasn’t the opening first year girls basketball coach Scott Stein had hoped for… The Lady Lancers fell to St. Thomas Aquinas 58-38 in their first game of
Strong SM South turnout at board meeting has Save Mission Valley parents on alert
A contingent of SM South parents lobbying the board of education to approve the original proposals put forth by superintendent Gene Johnson got the attention of the leaders of the
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SM East takes in haul of journalism awards
SM East journalism adviser Dow Tate may not have won Kansas Teacher of Year honors this weekend — but if there were any doubt he deserved to be on the
