Author: Patrick Richardson
Pennsylvania settlement allows parents to opt students out of SEL
In a victory for parents, America First Legal recently announced a settlement agreement in a lawsuit it filed earlier this…
NCTQ: Kansas among the states using weak teacher licensure test for reading
A new study by the National Council on Teacher Quality is casting doubts on the teacher licensure tests in many…
Westwood officials have no cash flow analysis of Karbank incentive project
The city of Westwood, Kansas — in northeast Johnson County — apparently did not conduct a long-term cash flow analysis…
Inspector General report pushes for background checks on teachers, staff
A recent audit by the Medicaid Inspector General of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s management of School-Based Fee…
Gilmore wins 1st Amendment case against Olathe school board member
In a victory for free speech rights, a federal jury recently sided with Olathe resident Jennifer Gilmore who was removed…
Judge blocks abortion notification requirements in Kansas
A Kansas court has temporarily blocked a long-standing abortion law called the “Women’s Right to Know Act.” On Oct. 30,…
AFT-Kansas distances itself from anti-semitic statement by affiliated union at KU
A recent story in the Sentinel exposing the rabid anti-semitism of the University of Kansas’ Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition has…
EPC Group demands $11 million more taxpayer money for its project by Wichita baseball stadium
Wichita city leaders are considering a(nother) sweetheart deal that would transfer even more taxpayer money to EPC Real Estate Group…
Health textbook with explicit sexual content pulled in Spring Hill
A “health” textbook describing everything from anal sex to “rational suicide” and presenting ideas such as the “gender spectrum” as…
State audit: just spending more won’t improve achievement
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly is touting recent slight increases in state assessments as proof that more spending results in improved…
KU graduate teaching assistant union calls Israel ‘settler colonial project’
As Israel responds to the vicious terror attacks by radical Islamist group Hamas, a graduate student group based at the…
Herington Hospital closure is unrelated to Medicaid expansion
Kansas Democrat Governor Laura Kelly is once again using the closure of a rural hospital to push for Medicaid expansion…
2023 ACT scores drop beyond 30 year low
A little more than a week after the Kansas Association of School Boards touted Kansas as one of only six…
Education bureaucracy pushing the status quo in hearings
Legislative hearings over this and last week are focusing on how to improve outcomes in Kansas education, perhaps unsurprisingly, the education…
Compass Academy Network prevents summer learning loss in middle school
An innovative new program based out of Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School in Joplin, Missouri, is hoping to make a…
Hays High School construction project, restrooms stirs controversy
Ground is set to be broken at the new Hays, Kansas High School soon, and it is unclear if the…
KCC staff recommends smaller increase in Evergy Central, decrease in KC area
Kansas Corporation Commission staff late last month made a rare rate decrease recommendation in an Evergy rate case before the…
Ottawa beekeeper wins sweet victory for home-based businesses
People in Ottawa, Kansas who want home-based businesses to sell honey and produce won a victory recently, thanks to Ellen…
ADHD medication shortage causes difficulties for patients
A shortage of medication for sufferers of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), many of them children, has persisted for much of…
Prominent scientists balk at climate change narrative
For years the refrain has been “the science is settled,” never mind that actual science is never settled — but…
Johnson County libraries to provide feminine hygiene products in men’s restrooms
Yes, the headline is correct; Johnson County libraries will soon provide tampons and other feminine hygiene products in the men’s…
Marion Record reporter Deb Gruver sues Marion police chief Gideon Cody
The first federal lawsuit filed in the wake of the raid of the Marion County Record has been filed and…
Kansas City Star rejects opinions with which it disagrees
When Colleen Nelson was the editorial manager for the Kansas City Star, she made sure that alternate views (i.e., not…
Kansas loses private sector jobs while adding government jobs
Through the first seven months of 2023, seasonally adjusted numbers show Kansas has lost 2,700 private sector jobs, while adding…