Kansas educators seek restart of superintendent search at Kansas School for the Deaf

Kansas officials are working to hire a superintendent at Kansas School for the Deaf, but some want the search redone to include deaf people in the process.

By: Tim Carpenter

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: April 15, 2026

Words: 749

Last Updated: 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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TOPEKA — Sign language educator Petra Horn-Marsh used hand gestures and facial expressions to deliver a message of unequivocal distress to the Kansas State Board of Education.

Horn-Marsh, with more than 30 years of experience in the field of deaf studies, asked the 10-member state board to restart the search for a new superintendent at the Kansas School for the Deaf in Olathe. The fatal flaw in the current superintendent process, she said through an …

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