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Shawnee Mission School District

The Shawnee Mission School District has announced members of the five "action teams" that will be charged with creating detailed plans to achieve the objectives defined last month as part of the district's long-term strategic planning process. The teams will...
For more than three decades, students from the Shawnee Mission and Blue Valley school districts have gone head to head on “Categories,” an academic quiz show broadcast on local cable TV. The show gives student participants the opportunity to flex...
It was the first time in Cub Scout history that girls could compete alongside boys in local Pinewood Derbies — and a second-grade girl bested them all. Genevieve Hoffmann took home first place at her derby March 2, defeating boys...
There will be a contested race for the SM Northwest seat being vacated by longtime incumbent Patty Mach on the school board. Jamie Borgman, who has three children attending Shawnee Mission schools in the SM Northwest feeder area, announced today...
A 26-year-old Fairway man will be arraigned in Johnson County District Court this afternoon following his arrest Friday after pointing a gun at police responding to a report of shots fired in the area near Highlands Elementary. Dylan Christopher Ruffin...
Pawnee Elementary’s semiannual Swap ‘n Shop is coming up next month, and the local PTA members are busy gearing up for it. Throughout the year, people drop off gently used clothes — from infant sizes all the way up to...
Organizers of the National Merit Scholarship program have announced this year's finalists, and 12 of the students are from the Shawnee Mission School District. Approximately 1.6 million students take the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test each year. Of those,...
Brian Koon, a public education advocate who was briefly a candidate for an at-large seat on the board in 2017, announced today that he was seeking the SM North area seat on the Shawnee Mission board of education. Koon, whose...
The slippery layer of ice that coated Johnson County roads overnight led to the cancelation of classes at Shawnee Mission Schools, and pushed the district to the brink of needing to extend the school year to meet state requirements...
The steering committee working on a new strategic plan for the Shawnee Mission School District has drafted a set of beliefs and objectives that will serve as organizing principles for the group's work moving forward. And embracing the district's...
With Boy Scouts of America's move to open its ranks to girls for the first time in the organization's more than 100 years of existence, girls-only troops are forming in the Shawnee Mission area. Tom Pistorius is scoutmaster of one...
Seven times so far this school year, the Shawnee Mission School District has canceled classes on account of inclement weather — and district officials are looking at whether and how to adjust the calendar accordingly. The original 2018-19 school calendar approved...