An advisory task force will collect community input on a potential name change for Seaman Unified School District 345 and return to the school board with a report, but not a recommendation, on such a change, the Seaman Board of Education decided on Monday evening.
After an hour of split public comment, the board voted to accept superintendent Steve Noble's proposal to create that advisory task force to guide the community conversation on a potential name change.
The board had not yet discussed a name change but had been under intense public pressure to broach the topic after an October report from two student journalists at the school confirmed rumors that district namesake Fred Seaman was a leader in the Topeka chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.