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Board reviews draft policy and multi-step process for community-funded staff positions
Summary
Following a year of study, the board reviewed a proposed policy (KH) and a new multi-step application and scoring process intended to govern donations that fund staff positions; the draft would bar donations for regular classroom and special-education teacher slots and require annual review and equity scoring for other position requests.
The Shawnee Mission Board of Education received a first reading of a proposed update to policy KH and an associated application-and-review procedure for community-funded positions after a year-long Donations Task Force and Policy Review Committee process.
Administrators said the draft policy would clarify that the board — not building principals — approves donated funds and would generally bar donations that hire regular classroom or special-education teachers. The draft also disallows donations that would create positions at one school level that do not exist at other schools at the same level; the stated purpose…
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