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High-school principals tell KCKPS board tutoring, staffing and transportation remain priorities
Summary
Principals reported preliminary CAP gains and stressed fidelity to high-quality instructional materials, while board members pressed for expanded tutoring, summer-school access and late buses to support students.
Rick Malone, principal at Sumner Academy, presented the secondary-level needs assessment during the board’s review of building needs. Malone said preliminary CAP results show gains and credited district-adopted high-quality instructional materials and AVID for supporting classroom progress.
Board members probed how tutoring and summer school would be expanded, and raised transportation concerns for students who stay after school. "Increasing opportunities for tutoring, especially maybe opportunities for transportation and late bus is good," Malone said, noting that the district’s athletic buses run later and that activity buses stopped after COVID. The board and staff discussed Title I allocations and the challenge of hiring staff to run after-school programs; the district said some schools already use Title I funds for tutoring but staffing and driver availability can constrain expansion.
Members also discussed social-emotional supports and tiered interventions, including morning huddles that coordinate counselors, social workers and nursing staff to triage immediate student needs. Dr. Stubblefield cautioned that CAP scores discussed were preliminary and not finalized until state confirmation.
