Johnson County Post, February 2024

Shawnee Mission dual language proponents hope idea makes it into next strategic plan

An organized effort to get a dual language program in the Shawnee Mission School District (Kansas) received strong support in a recent public input effort, buoying supporters’ hopes that it might make it onto the district’s long-range strategic plan later this year.

The district is in the early stages of its planning process for a new strategic plan.

At a school board meeting Monday, Leigh Anne Neal, Shawnee Mission’s chief of early childhood learning and sustainability, presented six guiding principles for the strategic plan approved by a 31-member steering committee.

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