SMSD hosting community meeting on future of Brookwood tonight

Brookwood Elementary parents tonight will have the chance to let Shawnee Mission School District administrators know how they feel about the proposal to move the school into the Shawnee Mission South attendance area.

The district is holding a community meeting — the first of 11 — at 7 p.m. in the Shawnee Mission East auditorium to discuss the proposal, which superintendent Gene Johnson announced last week at the Board of Education meeting.

The district has a meeting scheduled for Monday, October 4 at 7 p.m. in the Shawnee Mission East auditorium to discuss its proposal to close Mission Valley Middle School.

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Jay Senter
Jay Senter

Jay Senter is the founder and publisher of the Johnson County Post.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in business at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he worked as a reporter and editor at The Badger Herald.

He went on to receive a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas. While he was in graduate school, he also worked as a reporter for the Lawrence Journal-World.

His reporting has appeared in the Kansas City Star, The Pitch and The New York Times, among other publications.

Senter was the recipient of the Johnson County Community College Headliner Award in 2023.

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