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Unified School District No. 232

After completing a six-month listening tour, USD 232 in De Soto's superintendent is looking at ways to improve the school district. From April to October, the tour provided Superintendent Cory Gibson feedback from a wide swath of groups, including students,...
For Christmas, a men's Christian faith group in Shawnee is erasing lunch debt for students in two Kansas school districts. Collecting about $5,500, the group WhiteFlag donated it to wipe out lunch debt in USD 232 in De Soto and...
After months of discussions, the USD 232 in De Soto Board of Education adopted the state’s open enrollment policy. In a meeting on Dec. 4, the school board voted 6-1 to adopt the state's mandated nonresident student enrollment policy. Outgoing...
While the USD 232 in De Soto Board of Education has its reservations about the state's open enrollment policy, the school board still plans to formally adopt it. At a public hearing on Nov. 6, the school board had its...
A former USD 232 teacher facing six felony counts of unlawful sexual relations with students has requested to be taken off house arrest. On Friday, Keil Hileman, a former social studies teacher at Monticello Trails Middle School, appeared via Zoom...
A public hearing in USD 232 in De Soto is set for people to voice their thoughts on the nonresident student enrollment policy that will go into effect for the 2024-25 academic year. On Oct. 2, the USD 232 Board...
A law requiring Kansas public school districts to enroll any students, even if they don't live inside the district's boundaries, will go into effect before the start of next school year in 2024. But already, school board members in USD...
While USD 232 in De Soto passed its lowest tax rate in 30 years, the school district won't be all good tax news for homeowners in the area. The USD 232 Board of Education on Monday, Sept. 11, unanimously adopted...
A retiring Shawnee Police Department officer’s career didn’t evolve as he originally thought it would. It turned out even better. Growing up, Officer Mo Loridon admired what he thought of as the “bad ass cops.” But it was through emotion...
Schools in USD 232 in De Soto started off their 2023-24 year with cheers and thumping beats. Students in kindergarten through sixth grade started school Wednesday, Aug. 16; meanwhile, students in upper grades gave a warm welcome to freshmen on...
Cory Gibson, a long-time public education leader and a Kansas native, is the new superintendent of USD 232 in De Soto. Gibson, whose hiring was approved in the spring, officially took over as the school district’s top administrator on July...
USD 232 in De Soto is proposing a lower property tax rate for 2024 but that doesn’t necessarily mean the taxes for homeowners living in the district will be going down. Julie Stucky, USD 232’s finance and business director, told...