Wichita Public Schools

District staff say the building is safe, but the first-floor foundation of the former Roosevelt Junior High building needs to be replaced soon.

The Wichita Board of Education will vote in June on whether to approve the recommendation and send the bond issue to voters.

The appointee will serve through December of 2027.

Voters in USD 259 narrowly rejected a $450 million bond proposal in February of last year.

The building, which once served as a pillar within the predominantly Black neighborhoods of northeast Wichita, will be demolished this summer because of structural problems.

Natalia Malcolm was recently surprised at school with the Overcoming Adversity Scholarship, which will allow her to attend Wichita State University.

The new ban is part of a recent push to reconsider the effects of devices on the developing minds of students.

USD 259 will close L'Ouverture, OK, Pleasant Valley and Woodland elementary schools as soon as the end of next school year.

The rally comes ahead of a key vote Monday on the planned closures of L'Ouverture, OK, Pleasant Valley and Woodland elementary schools.

McCray-Miller was elected to the Wichita school board in 2023. She previously served on the Sedgwick County Commission and in the Kansas Legislature. She was 69.