Category: News
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…
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…
Lansing parent challenges curriculum pushing Marxism, other political opinions
A Lansing parent has removed her high school senior from an English Composition class, contending the materials in the curriculum…
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…
JoCo poll workers warned about potential Konnech identity theft
Election workers for Johnson County from June 2016 to October 2022 are being cautioned to monitor their personal information amid…
Reading, math proficiency plummet on 2022 NAEP assessment
Reading and math proficiency fell to historic lows on the 2022 NAEP test, with just a third of 4th-grade proficient…
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…
Shawnee City Council promotes fairness in women’s sports
Fairness in women’s sports is getting a boost from a Johnson County city. The Shawnee City Council overwhelmingly approved federal…
2022 pay increases for some school administrators dwarf teacher pay
The average teacher pay increased by 4.3% (contracted base salary) in the 2022 school year, but some administrators received much…
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…
2022 ACT: Only 21% of Kansas graduates are college-ready in four core subjects
The 2022 ACT results are largely a repeat of the previous year. Only 21% of Kansas graduates are college-ready in…
Constitutional amendment on November ballot would preserve sheriff elections
The second constitutional amendment before Kansas voters on November 8th proposes to maintain election as the method of selecting Kansas…
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…
Kansas lost $295 million AGI from people leaving in 2020; even Johnson County lost
Domestic migration data from the IRS shows Kansas lost $295 million in adjusted gross income (AGI) in 2020 because more…
School Choice advocates hope wins in West Virginia, Arizona, encourage Kansas legislature
School Choice supporters in Kansas are applauding a pair of recent victories in West Virginia and Arizona that they hope…
Cato Institute: Governor Kelly earns a “C” in tax-and-spend policy
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly portrays herself as supporting sound fiscal policy as she campaigns for re-election, but Cato Institute gives…
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…
Kelly administration ignores law prohibiting collections from unemployment fraud victims
Efforts by the Kansas Departments of Labor, Revenue, and Administration to either tax or claw back unemployment benefits received by…
City removes defense for teachers, librarians, retailers, providing obscene materials to minors
Teachers and librarians, even store clerks, in the City of Edwardsville no longer have legal protections if, in the course…
Unemployment fraud victims in Kansas taxed on money they didn’t get
Imagine being the victim of unemployment fraud and having the state tax department charge you income tax on money the…
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…
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…
Kansas is #37 in GDP growth over the last three years
The negative economic news for Kansas keeps rolling in, with real (inflation-adjusted) GDP growth at negative 0.6% for the second…
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…