(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) On Nov. 11, 2024, the St. Joseph School District Board of Education met for a work session to discuss plans for the new high schools coming to St. Joseph.
On the boards agenda, they had a number of things to discuss including updates from the bond projects, a clean school bus grant, and 2025 ballot language coming in April.
The major agenda item discussed was what the process of building the new high schools would look like.
SJSD BOE President LaTonya Williams said “In the end, it will be a new high school approved in April and then a couple years after that, another high school approved. It’s important for the equity of our schools because not everything is offered at every school, and the educational opportunities a kid in the North will receive isn’t the same as a kid in a midtown school, and we need to fix that.”
“All of our kids deserve an equal opportunity, you know, to the education in our district, and the new high schools will do that, and it will also update things for 21st century learning. On example, our kids right now are not able to compete outside of our district on an educational level, and we need to fix,” Williams concluded.
With the district discussing ballot language as well, the board will have until Jan. 28 to figure out the location, cost and what the individual cost increase will be and turn it into the County Clerk’s Office.