Despite voting earlier this month to discontinue an employment contract with the district’s executive director of special education — whose leadership has been called into question by staff and families — school board members in Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools no longer seem fully decided on the matter.
More than six hours into their meeting on Tuesday, school board members by a 5-2 vote decided to table an item related to Special Education Executive Director JaKyta Lawrie’s departure from KCKPS until later this week, putting a final call about her employment on pause.
Board member Wanda Brownlee Paige motioned to remove Lawrie’s “involuntary separation” from the meeting’s human resources report and to revisit the item during a Friday meeting…