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Superintendent presents fall community engagement report identifying five priorities
Summary
Superintendent Janice Kerr Swift told the board that thousands of stakeholders contributed to a community engagement process; five cross-cutting themes emerged — teachers and staff, academic programs, safety, equity and transparency — and district staff will use the results to inform strategic planning.
Interim Superintendent Janice Kerr Swift presented a districtwide community engagement report to the Lawrence USD 497 Board of Education, saying thousands of students, staff, families and community members contributed ideas gathered this fall.
The University of Kansas assisted with analysis, Swift said, and the report synthesized inputs from an online survey (about 1,200 responses), school and department meetings, district-hosted conversations and outreach to community groups. Swift described the dataset as large and consistent enough to…
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