Tag: amy shandy
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Academy D-20 board selects finalists for vacancy
The Academy District 20 Board of Education has selected three candidates to replace its outgoing member. Kelli Hawkins, Jason Knese and Douglas Huttenlocker were named as the majority-preferred candidates by board members during a special meeting Monday. The three were selected out of nine candidates to finish out Amy Shandy’s term, who announced her resignation…
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Academy D-20 board president to resign
Amy Shandy, the president of Academy District 20’s Board of Education, announced Thursday that she will step down because she and her husband Ty will move out of state for a job he recently accepted. Fighting back tears, she called serving on the board “an honor.” The board’s Sept. 3 meeting will be her last.…
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D-20 to require permission for name changes, removes book with transgender narrative
Academy District 20 will require parental consent for name changes, a move that advocates say will harm the district’s transgender students. The action, unanimously approved Thursday by the D-20 school board, came as board members also decided to remove a book featuring a transgender narrative from the district’s libraries, citing allegedly dangerous resources and narratives…
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Academy D-20 to part ways with superintendent
An email sent to the Academy District 20 community on Thursday night from the district’s Board of Education announced that it would be parting ways with Superintendent Jinger Haberer. In the email, D-20 Board President Amy Shandy said that the board “has unanimously determined that we do not have confidence” in Haberer’s leadership moving forward…
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Protesters oppose changes to Academy D-20 policy procedure
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A group of parents, students, former educators and community members gathered outside the Academy D-20 administrative building to protest a new resolution moments before the Board of Education passed it at a special meeting on Tuesday. Resolution 248-25 updates the board’s procedure for adopting administrative…
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Protesters oppose changes to Academy D-20 policy procedure
CORRECTION: The initial version of this story reported that D-20’s Board of Education approved Resolution 248-25. The item was removed from the agenda at the start of the meeting and will be re-visited at a future meeting. A group of parents, students, former educators and community members gathered outside the Academy D-20 administrative building to…