Commissioner Watson announces 50-city Kansans Can Success Tour

Posted Date: 07/13/2021

Kansas Education Commissioner Dr. Randy Watson is “warming up the bus.”

Watson announced Tuesday that he and other Kansas State Department of Education officials will embark on a 50-city statewide tour starting this month to talk with Kansans about public school education.

The Kansans Can Success Tour is a follow up to an earlier tour that led to the State Board of Education in 2015 adopting the Kansans Can vision to prepare students for lifelong success.

Toward accomplishment of this vision, the board identified outcomes for measuring success. These include social/emotional growth; kindergarten readiness; individual plans of study; high school graduation rates and postsecondary completion.

The upcoming tour will start Mon. July 26 in Salina, Concordia and Beloit. Watson plans to have three 1 1/2-hour meetings on most days day for a week, then take two-week breaks and resume meetings for the week starting Mon. Aug. 16 and then again Aug. 30.

Watson said he hopes the meetings will attract school board members, teachers, parents, students, business leaders, higher education officials and anyone interested in public education.