Unified School District No. 232

A new art installation designed by a Mill Valley High School student is planned for a roundabout in Shawnee. At the Oct. 27 Shawnee City Council meeting, the organization Shawnee Kansas Arts, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit, announced funds are being...

A 10-foot-deep sinkhole on the Mill Valley High School campus in Shawnee is getting repaired after underground corrugated pipes failed, the city says. The Shawnee City Council on Monday voted 7-0 to approve a contract and materials needed to fill...

A former teacher in USD 232 will spend the next two years in prison for attempting to have sex with students. On Friday, a Johnson County District Court judge Neil Foth sentenced Keil Hileman to a total of 24 months...

A former decorated USD 232 teacher has reached a plea agreement related to charges that he tried to have sex with students. On Wednesday, Keil Hileman pleaded guilty in Johnson County District Court to two felony counts of attempted unlawful...

Johnson County prosecutors have charged a former Lexington Trails Middle School paraprofessional with multiple felonies, alleging she had sex with a student. On July 25, Kassidy Alexander, 27, was charged with three counts of unlawful sexual relations, a Class 5...

Correction: This story has been updated to show that Monticello Trails Middle School was one of the schools heavily impacted by this spring's storms.  After dealing with two spring storms, USD 232 in De Soto is facing hundreds of thousands...

A two-year art project brought two rival schools together for a common goal — to create and build a sculpture. The result of the collaboration between students at Mill Valley and De Soto High Schools, through USD 232's Cedar Trails...

For the second straight year, teachers in USD 232 will see an average salary increase of more than 6% for the coming school year. At its June meeting, the USD 232 Board of Education unanimously voted 7-0 to to approve...

Two Johnson County public school districts have set the number of available seats they will have available for nonresident students next school year. On Monday, the boards of education for both USD 232 in De Soto and the Blue Valley...

After completing a six-month listening tour, USD 232 in De Soto's superintendent is looking at ways to improve the school district. From April to October, the tour provided Superintendent Cory Gibson feedback from a wide swath of groups, including students,...

For Christmas, a men's Christian faith group in Shawnee is erasing lunch debt for students in two Kansas school districts. Collecting about $5,500, the group WhiteFlag donated it to wipe out lunch debt in USD 232 in De Soto and...

After months of discussions, the USD 232 in De Soto Board of Education adopted the state’s open enrollment policy. In a meeting on Dec. 4, the school board voted 6-1 to adopt the state's mandated nonresident student enrollment policy. Outgoing...