These recommendations are based on feedback received from our students, staff, families and community this fall and will help move us toward our goal of enhancing the student experience in KCPS.
Walk into Trailwoods on a Tuesday or Thursday, you will find the older students taking part of their day working in the school store, learning about stage blocking or even checking the moisture levels of their plant projects.
Students from Northeast High School and Lincoln College Preparatory Academy attended the 2022 DECA Central Region Leadership Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin over the weekend.
Kansas City Public Schools is conducting a nationwide search for its next superintendent and has contracted with an executive search firm to lead the search.
Congratulations to our student mathematicians who helped KCPS emerge as the overall District Champion in the 13th Annual PREP-KC Regional Math Relays!
COVID-19 Information & Protocols
UPDATED COVID-19 PROTOCOLS FOR 2023-24 School Year
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) updated its COVID-19 guidance on 5/11/23.
The US ended its federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency declaration on 5/11/23.
KCPS will end its current COVID-19 guidelines beginning August 7, 2023.
KCPS will continue to follow its policies already in place for COVID-19 and other communicable diseases. These are policies EBB and EBB-AP (1).
KCPS will add COVID-19 to the student illness exclusionary list. A student who tests positive for COVID-19 must remain home for 5 days and can return day 6 so long as symptoms are improving and 24 hours fever free.
Staff will no longer report COVID-19 absences to Human Resources. Staff are to use PTO for COVID-19.
KCPS encourages staff to follow CDC guidance and stay home when ill with COVID-19. Current CDC guidelines are to stay home 5 days and return day 6 so long as symptoms are improving and 24 hours fever free. As part of standard PTO provisions, staff may be required to provide medical documentation to their supervisor if staff is absent more than three days or if PTO misuse is reasonably suspected.
Trusted community partner Children’s Mercy Hospital is offering no-cost testing for COVID-19, Flu, and RSV for staff and students through the School Nurse at all KCPS sites.