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Shawnee Mission secondary students and staff will all be required to wear a mask as of Jan. 24. The board of education unanimously approved universal masking until Feb. 15, although it could be extended at the board's Feb. 14 meeting.
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Rev. Thomas Johnson was a slaveholder and led the “Bogus Legislature” that sought to install Kansas as a slave state before the Civil War. But rather than renaming Johnson County, the Charter Commission may decide to change its namesake.
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School board meetings held a reputation for being tame — even boring — affairs focusing on things like student achievement and bond issues. Now, it's a totally different ballgame.
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Over the summer, the remains of hundreds of Indigenous children were discovered at a Canadian boarding school. Since then, officials in Fairway, Kansas, said they would work with the Shawnee Tribe to look into the history of the Shawnee Indian Mission.
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Johnson County school districts began reporting their first COVID-19 data for the 2021-22 school year this week. All four northern Johnson County districts are each reporting dozens of students either with confirmed positive cases or in quarantine.
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Johnson County Commissioners are set to vote on a measure that would impose up to a $1,000 fine for someone deemed to have shot recklessly onto or over another's property.
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Eight years after closing her beloved Chacko's Bakery and Eatery, local chef Rachel Finn is starting Chacko's as a studio kitchen in her Mission home, where she will teach cooking classes.
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Teachers, parents and students are preparing for a new school year as the delta variant surge in Missouri continues.
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Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe said officers were justified in the shooting because they believed the man would have harmed a woman in his hotel room.
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The open letter urged the Blue Valley School District — one of the Kansas City metro’s largest — to change its current policy and require “universal masking” of all students, staff and visitors inside its facilities.
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If the ruling stands, local governments would have have more power to enact rules in response to a pandemic.
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With only 12 of the mission's original 2,000 acres still in state hands, the Shawnee Tribe may never find where children who died at the school were buried.