The Shawnee Mission School District is set to convene three groups tasked with fleshing out parts of the recently completed strategic plan, Superintendent Michael Fulton announced on Monday — and the groups’ work will be open and observable to the public.
That openness is a notable change from the work of the Digital Learning Task Force, which met earlier this year in closed door meetings and whose work was criticized by some members as being “designed to silence critics and stifle debate.” The Shawnee Mission Post filed a Kansas Open Meeting Act violation complaint against the district for closing the Digital Learning Task Force meetings from observers. The Kansas Attorney General’s Office informed the Post this summer that it was continuing to investigate the complaint.
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