HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Wiley Elementary School is in the middle of its redesign phase. The school is one of four going through the state's redesign education process.
One Thursday the school staff will go before the Kansas State Department of Education to make their formal presentation. The project requires schools to remodel their academic programs to create successful high school students. Schools chosen for the state’s redesign program spend one year planning what changes to carry out. They then apply the changes the following year.
Lincoln, Hutchinson Magnet School at Allen, and Graber are all in different phases of the Apollo redesign program within the district.
The redesign is part of the Kansas Can Project which was initially announced in 2017 after the Kansas Department of Education got feedback that the community wanted more focus on students’ nonacademic skills.