By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — As the Kansas State Department of Education prepares to go back out on the road to continue its Kansans Can Success Tour, Mark Tallman with the Kansas Association of School Boards says the hopes stakeholders have for students haven't changed much since Dr. Randy Watson became Education Commissioner.
"What was said five or six years ago about what we want from kids is still accurate," Tallman said. "The general ideas of what schools should do in response are still the same. We're finding, of course, that figuring out how to actually accomplish those changes is more difficult."
Part of the problem is that the pandemic is still throwing sand in the gears of the educational process.
"When this was planned, the feeling was, as we are hopefully moving away from that, we need to talk about what it's going to take to deal with problems that might have happened," Tallman said. "If we had student learning loss, how do we get kids back together? Schools and kids are going to be at very different places. I think the feeling was the worst was over. The last several weeks of this may change."
So far, the schedule remains, including a meeting in Hutchinson August 30. A full week of meetings starts Monday, with Monday through Wednesday in southeast Kansas and Thursday and Friday in south-central Kansas.
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