GARDNER, Kan. (AP) A suburban Kansas City, Kansas, school board has approved a $425,000 severance package for the district’s superintendent, who is leaving her post just a day before a newly-elected conservative majority who campaigned on ousting her takes office.
Mel Reeves, a prominent Twin Cities activist and community editor at the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, died Thursday after being hospitalized with COVID-19.
GARDNER A Kansas school board has approved a $425,000 severance package for the district s superintendent, who is leaving her post just a day before a newly
Superintendent Pam Stranahan was given a $425,000 severance package by the Gardner Edgerton school board before its newly-elected conservative majority could take office in January. Incoming board members were eager to fire Stranahan over her COVID-19 decisions.