One parent coordinator runs each area, assigning specific tasks with owners, due dates and status. Your contact details stay private.
- Pick one or more ways to help, and when you're free.
- If you sign in, your sign-up (first name, email, how you'd like to help) is saved for the volunteer team and emailed to the group's inbox. Only the volunteer team can see it, and no names are published. Without signing in, the form just opens an email to the group.
- Each area has a parent coordinator, so work is shared and not duplicated.
Help needed this week
| Status | Task | Area | Due | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Open Forum on Nov 9: speakers and writers Speakers and writers for the Open Forum's usual ten three-minute slots, with topics coordinated so each speaker covers a different point. | Speak at the BoardWrite & rehearse | Mon, Nov 9, 2026 · 5:30 p.m. CST · sign-up expected to open Fri, Nov 6, noon | 0 of 10 volunteers · 10 more needed |
| Open | Read the records when the KORA responses arrive Researchers to help read what the district sends back. The checkpoint is for a response, not necessarily for the records themselves. | Research & data | Responses received; review under way | 0 of 4 volunteers · 4 more needed |
| Open | Email the Board and the superintendent Help families put the request in their own words. Early letters matter most. | Write & rehearse | Today | 0 volunteers · everyone welcome |
| Open | Staying at your school? Tell the district Remind families who plan to stay that the placement form exists. No deadline is posted; treat as urgent. | Family outreach | Any time | 0 volunteers · everyone welcome |
| Open | Translate the one-page brief, if useful Translations of the Board brief for families who read another language. | Communications | Any time | 0 of 1 volunteers · 1 more needed |
Open In progress Done
One coordinator per area. Owners are tracked privately by the group, so no names appear here.
Ways to help
Speak at the Board
Give a three-minute remark at Open Forum. About ten speaking slots are expected, so speakers each cover a different point.
A parent coordinator for this area will follow up.
- Pick a distinct topic, so speakers don't repeat each other.
- A writer is paired with you to draft and rehearse.
- Register through the district's official Open Forum process and wait for the district's confirmation of your slot.
Write & rehearse
Draft or tighten a speaker's three minutes, check facts against the sources, or time a run-through.
A parent coordinator for this area will follow up.
Research & data
Read the records the district releases, check budget figures against their sources, and help keep the source library accurate.
A parent coordinator for this area will follow up.
Records requests already sent · How open-records requests work · Source library
Legal review
Lawyers: Kansas-licensed attorneys are the priority. Tell us your area of practice; no case details are needed up front.
A parent coordinator for this area will follow up.
Family outreach
Reach families across schools and grades: placement-form reminders, sharing updates.
A parent coordinator for this area will follow up.
Communications
Help with media and translations: press contacts, social posts, translating the one-page brief.
A parent coordinator for this area will follow up.
Speaking at a Board meeting? Pick a topic
- Open Forum gives each speaker three minutes, with about ten slots expected. 1
- Tell us which topic interests you; the coordinator confirms it. Each links to the page that backs it.
The speaker process, in three parts:
- Pick a distinct topic, so speakers don't repeat each other.
- A writer is paired with you to draft and rehearse.
- Register through the district's official Open Forum process and wait for the district's confirmation of your slot.
Open Forum rules (Take Action A-04)
- Policy ID and a recorded voteProgram deletions and alterations are to be approved by the Board; we ask the Board to take that vote on the record.
- The Board's own World Language evaluation goalFinish and publish the K-12 evaluation before anything is cut.
- The real savings depend on families stayingAsk for the net-savings estimate and its assumption about how many families stay.
- Continue the full program, or sunset so every enrolled student finishesCompare continuing the full program, sunsetting and the announced cancellation on one basis.
- The student impact storyWhat the change means for current students, in a parent's own words.