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Nickerson School Board s newest members Jay Mitzner and Luke Herren were shocked at overcrowding in South Hutchinson Elementary School. They toured the school in February. It was embarrassing when we gave school tours, said Chelsey Mathias, the principal of South Hutchinson Elementary School. We had offices in closets and a classroom on the stage.
Mitzner, who is in the construction business, went to work trying to find an inexpensive, yet doable solution to the overcrowding at South Hutchinson.
He found new modules could cost the district more than $160,000, so he sought used ones. Within a day or two, he found four used portable modular classrooms and negotiated a price of $70,000 for all four.
Nickerson will start interviewing for new superintendent early next week
Nickerson-South Hutchinson Schools held their board meeting on Monday evening at the district office. During the meeting, the board discussed plans for the search of the new superintendent, students failing due to COVID-19 issues and upcoming assessments.
All applications for the superintendent were due by April 2 and were screened by the Kansas Association of School Boards. KASB will present their findings to the Nickerson-South Hutchinson School Board on April 7, during a closed board meeting.
Interviews for the superintendent position could begin as early as Thursday and will most likely take place on either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday next week. The district is not sure how many candidates they will interview.
Hutchinson s USD 309 seeing improved classroom behavior hutchnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hutchnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Two-hour delay It s like a holiday. It doesn t happen that much that we get three-something feet of snow, said fourth-grader A.J. Brown.
Brown was also at Beech Park sledding, but didn t ditch school. I had, like, a half-day today, said Brown. I was in school until like 10:15-ish. Snow days are the best part of wintertime, said dad Brian Morgan.
His kids go to a charter school that didn t have remote learning today. Luckily our kids got the snow day, we got the snow day from work, so it s a good day, said Morgan. We checked in on-time this morning and we rushed our schoolwork and we got out the door as fast as we could, said mom Denise Crawford.