Several area school districts were recently recognized by the Kansas State Department of Education for reaching outcome milestones through the Kansans Can Star Recognition program.
USD 253 Emporia received a bronze star for graduation rates. It also received the Commissioner’s Award for outperforming predicted postsecondary effectiveness rates.
Other districts also fared well:
*USD 251 North Lyon County received the bronze star for high school graduation, the copper star for postsecondary academic preparation, the bronze star for postsecondary success, the bronze star for civic engagement and the Commissioner’s Award.
*USD 252 Southern Lyon County received the gold star for high school graduation, the copper star for postsecondary academic preparation, the bronze star for postsecondary success, the copper star for social-emotional growth, the copper star for individual plans of study and the Commissioner’s Award.
*USD 243 Lebo-Waverly received the gold star for high school graduation, the copper star for postsecondary academic preparation, the bronze star for postsecondary success and the Commissioner’s Award.
*USD 244 Burlington received the bronze star for high school graduation, the copper star for postsecondary academic preparation and the bronze star for postsecondary success.
*USD 245 Southern Coffey County received the silver star for high school graduation and the Commissioner’s Award.
*USD 284 Chase County received the gold star for high school graduation, the silver star for postsecondary success and the Commissioner’s Award
*USD 386 Madison-Virgil received the gold star for high school graduation, the copper star for postsecondary academic preparation, the bronze star for postsecondary success and the Commissioner’s Award with Honors.
*USD 389 Eureka received the gold star for high school graduation and the copper star for postsecondary academic preparation.
*USD 390 Hamilton received the gold star for high school graduation and the copper star for postsecondary academic preparation.
*USD 417 Morris County received the bronze star for high school graduation, the copper star for postsecondary academic preparation and the bronze star for postsecondary success.
*USD 420 Osage City received the copper star for postsecondary academic preparation.
*USD 421 Lyndon received the gold star for high school graduation, the copper star for postsecondary academic preparation and the bronze star for postsecondary success.
The program is designed to support the Kansas Education Systems Accreditation model by helping districts pinpoint where they want to focus improvement efforts. Districts can receive gold, silver, bronze or copper stars in quantitative areas like academic preparation for postsecondary education, high school graduation and postsecondary success. They can also get the same color stars for qualitative measures like social-emotional growth, kindergarten readiness, individual plans of study and civic engagement.
