Briefly Noted: Shawnee Mission security, academic officers announce 2020 retirements

Shawnee Mission Executive Director of Emergency Management John Douglass will retire at the end of next school year.

Security head John Douglass, student services leader Ed Streich to retire at end of next school year. Superintendent Mike Fulton announced on Monday that the district’s Executive Director of Emergency Management John Douglass and chief of student services Ed Streich will retire at the end of the 2019-2020 school year. The moves come as the district is looking to reallocate funding to account for a reduction in Title 1 money. “As system leaders concerned with the long-term success of the district, they decided to announce their decision now, in order to provide the Board and administration with maximum flexibility in planning for the future,” said the district’s communications office.

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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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