Lee's Summit R-7 School District

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Lee’s Summit School District Payroll Salary and Benefit Listings for Stansberry Leadership Center Staff - Lee's Summit Tribune - Lee's Summit News Taxpayers wake up! The Central Office of LSR7 salaries are listed below at over $6,000,000. 18 people in Central Office making over $100K. This doesn't include any benefits or their perks (cell phones, car allowance, annuities, association memberships). All of these employees/salaries are hired and approved by the Board of Education (BOE). Superintendent's Top 9 (the ones that have big pictures on the school website): Blevins: $197,988 J. Miller: $178,914 Daniel: $176,067 Hendrick: $170,831 Collier: $161,857 Andrews: $168,831 Phelan: $126,117 Gates: $150,928 E. Miller: $159,857 Ask the BOE how & why this happened when Teachers are ranked #39 in the state and #49 if they have a Master's degree! Ask them how & why this happened when multiple programs for the kids were CUT the past 6 years! Ask them to start being ...

Missouri public school students to get dyslexia screenings | The Charlotte Observer JEFFERSON CITY, MO.  Gov. Jay Nixon has signed a bill that requires every student in Missouri public schools to be screened for dyslexia. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/292f23q ) reports that Nixon signed the bill last week. Screenings for the learning disorder, which is characterized by difficulty reading, are to start in the 2018-19 school year. The screenings are meant to be informal and brief. The bill also says teachers must receive two hours of training on methods to address dyslexia. A 20-member task force will recommend how classroom accommodations should be delivered. Kim Stuckey, a dyslexia specialist for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, says that school officials are going to create better awareness about dyslexia. In Missouri, parents in the advocacy group Decoding Dyslexia have pushed the Legislature for change to raise the status of dyslexia...

Holster your pitchforks, McGehee is gone | Opinion | Lee's Summit Journal It is time that the voters start researching the candidates that run for school board.  I ran twice.  I was bullied by one candidate.  It happened right after a debate and everyone in the audience saw it.  One person even stopped me on the way out and questioned me about why he attacked me.   I was called crazy and was treated as a stupid housewife that did not have the ability to handle the business of a school district.  I was told that I belonged at the podium and not on the board.  I was told this in public.  In front of the few voters that showed up to the debate.  We have finally gotten the voters to see what really goes on in this district.  They have only seen the tip of the iceberg.  Teachers have been fired for trying to help students.  Teachers have bullied students.  Three children with autism had to be removed from PE in one middle...

Missouri's highest paid superintendent stepping down - + KSHB.com