March 28, 2024

Keeping Media and Government Accountable.

Author: Patrick Richardson

KS Supreme Court Justice Caleb Stegall resigns teaching position over free speech issues

Just over a month after an associate dean at the University of Kansas School of Law labeled a speech that…

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Special education formula doesn’t count all the funding

School funding advocates met at the Capitol in Topeka recently to make the case that special education in Kansas is…

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Kansas Open Records exemption allows elected officials to avoid scrutiny

Changes to the Kansas Open Records Act intended to close a loophole preventing the use of private emails to circumvent…

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KS education establishment out of touch with parents, student needs

The education establishment in Kansas appears to remain remarkably out of step with parents’ and students’ needs. While polling in…

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A culture emphasizing academic improvement drives scores higher in USD 329 Wabaunsee

Optimism, determination, accountability, respect. Those are integral elements of the culture at the Wabaunsee school district, and it shows in…

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Panel discussion to explore achievement gains in Wabaunsee school district

The Wabaunsee school district has consistently outperformed surrounding districts and the state average on math and reading state assessments tests…

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Candidate invitation to speak at Derby school may be election law violation

A Derby High School instructor potentially ran afoul of state election law last week when she invited the Democrat challenger…

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Rose Hill students taught there are five genders in dual credit college course

A Rose Hill high school student who has been taking concurrent (sometimes called “dual credit”) courses at Butler County Community…

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KU Law school says ADF discussion of the First Amendment is ‘hate speech’

Last week the University of Kansas student chapter of the Federalist Society invited Jordan Lorence, the senior counsel and director…

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Cato Institute files suit against student loan forgiveness program in Kansas federal court

On Monday, the Biden Administration formally launched its controversial student loan forgiveness program, which has already launched a raft of…

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Goddard, Wichita, and Blue Valley address learning loss

In the wake of the release of an online calculator by Georgetown University that estimates the number of weeks of…

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Nurse practitioner fired over religious exemption for birth control files lawsuit

A Kansas nurse practitioner says she was fired because of her faith — despite having had a religious exemption for…

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4-H ‘Thriving Model’ is grounded in equity, CRT, and Marxism

In the spring of 2013, 4-H launched a nationwide program of youth development called the “Thriving Model,” which appears grounded…

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Georgetown University estimates COVID learning loss by district

Parents have been all too aware for the last few years that the effects of school lockdowns led to significant…

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Fed up with 4-H focus on DEI, local group forms an alternative

One family in Southeast Kansas took a hard look at what was happening in the 4-H program they’d been a…

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Months after initial report, straight answers missing on cybersecurity at KDOL

The formal release earlier this month of a supplemental report to a forensic cybersecurity audit of the Kansas unemployment system,…

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Manchin electric grid takeover mirrored by KCC

Even before Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) was proposing a bill that would have essentially nationalized energy transmission in the…

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Institute for Justice report cites abuses of civil asset forfeiture

The case of Richard Martinez, whose classic 1959 Corvette was seized by the Kansas Highway Patrol — which then spent…

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Trust Kansas Coalition files open meetings complaint against Gov. Kelly

A public-interest group in Kansas is accusing Governor Laura Kelly and her administration of violating the Kansas Open Meetings Act.…

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Kansas residents to see spike in natural gas bills

Kansas residents over the last few months have seen a massive spike in electric rates — and will shortly be…

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Evergy ordered to explain capital expenses — in public

Questions about capital spending by Evergy — Kansas’ largest electric utility — came to a head Thursday as the Kansas…

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Kelly administration refuses to answer questions about ice cream social

Governor Laura Kelly’s office has declined to answer questions about an “Employee Appreciation Ice Cream Social” held last week. According…

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Eagle: Wichita park privatization largely a giveaway to developers

Privatizing Wichita’s parks system has largely resulted in giveaways to developers and other private interests rather than Wichita’s residents, according…

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KCC grants public utility status to wind developer that could raise electric rates

The Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) has approved the first stage of a project which will see electricity from the Wolf…

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