Kansas school district paying thousands for advice on name change
By the Associated Press
A Kansas school district that is named for a Ku Klux Klan leader is paying an advisory group to help lead discussions on how to change the name.
The Seaman School District’s Board of Education voted Monday to pay $30,000 to the Kansas Leadership Center for advice on the issue. The Seaman district is named for Fred Seaman, an “exalted cyclops,” or chief officer, in the Topeka KKK in the 1920s. Students, teachers and some community leaders want the board to change the name.
The district has named its own advisory board, but the school board will make the final decision.