(KNZA)--Incoming Kansas Education Commissioner Randy Watson will be visiting Hiawatha next month.
Watson began a 15-stop tour last Thursday to meet with parents, lawmakers and others about what they want from the state’s public schools.
He will be in Hiawatha on February 19th from 9 to 11 that morning at the Fisher Center.
Watson was selected for the commissioner job in November. He replaces Diane DeBacker who left in May.
Watson previously was superintendent of the 24-hundred student McPherson school district. He also was chairman of the Kansas Coalition of Innovative School Districts.
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