The Topeka Public Schools Board of Education recessed into a 30‑minute executive session to discuss confidential student matters under the Kansas Open Meetings Act’s student‑confidentiality exception, a board member motioned during the meeting.

A board member moved, “I move the board of education … recess into executive session for 30 minutes to discuss confidential student matters, to protect the privacy rights of the student being discussed pursuant to the Kansas Open Meetings Act, student confidentiality exception,” and said the superintendent and legal counsel would attend. The motion said the board would return to open session in the boardroom at 12:31 p.m.

The board chair put the motion to a vote and, after voting, announced the motion carried. The board then returned to open session and resumed the public meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance.

Under the Kansas Open Meetings Act, boards may close a meeting for specified student‑privacy reasons; the board cited that exception when moving into executive session. The meeting record shows the executive session lasted the time specified in the motion and that district leadership attended, as the motion stated.

No other details about the student matter were disclosed during the open meeting.