Category: News
Unanswered questions remain into allegations of insurance fraud in Council Grove government
What began with an anonymous source alleging disability insurance fraud in Council Grove City Hall has devolved into a Wall…
Lansing USD 469 school board to debate budget with a 24% property tax hike
USD 469 taxpayers will gather in Lansing to hear a presentation on the 2024-2025 budget that will exceed revenue-neutral. A…
Former Atty. General John Ashcroft weighs in on immigration reform
Former United States Attorney General John Ashcroft — who served in the George W. Bush administration — said a video…
Lansing USD 469 sponsors scholarship fundraiser featuring mock drag show, lap dance
The Lansing School District raised eyebrows and money for scholarships at a recent “Lip Sync Battle 2024” fundraiser, which featured…
Lansing mom warns State Board of Education about effects of Second Step middle school curriculum
Kirsten Workman of Lansing says her research shows the Second Step Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) program for middle schoolers is ineffective in improving…
Texas attorney general suing feds over new nursing home rules impacting Kansas
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services over a new rule nursing home…
Second Annual ‘Heartland Hybrid and Microschool Summit’ to highlight importance of new education models
An event scheduled for late September — the second annual “Heartland Hybrid and Microschool Summit” — will highlight the growing…
USD 475 employee David Wild made $631,000 last year, but no one will explain his duties
According to salary figures from USD 475 Geary County, David Wild was paid over $631,071.87 for the 2023-24 school year.…
ACE scholarship program shows remarkable progress for low-income students
ACE Scholarships, a program that provides partial funding for lower-income families to send their children to a private school of…
Leavenworth, Lansing superintendents prepare deceptive property tax presentation
Leavenworth USD 453 Superintendent Dr. Kellen Adams and Lansing USD 469 Superintendent Marty Kobza will discuss property taxes before the…
Kansas among 15 states suing to prevent illegal aliens from accessing Obamacare
Fifteen states are suing the Biden-Harris administration to prevent illegal aliens from being allowed to purchase tax-payer subsidized health insurance…
Easton USD 449 gives taxpayers a win with revenue-neutral budget in upcoming school year
Despite ever-increasing property assessments statewide, school patrons in Leavenworth County’s Easton School District will not pay additional property taxes in…
Former Emporia State professor suing for religious discrimination
A pair of lawsuits against Emporia State University for religious discrimination in 2022 is moving forward, with a trial scheduled…
School-level ACT scores show frightening declines since 2015
ACT scores for individual high schools in Kansas show concerning declines since 2015 in most cases. The statewide composite in…
KASB refuses to provide agenda for upcoming Title IX workshop
Weeks after a federal court placed a hold on implementing a new federal Department of Education (DOE) rule in Kansas,…
Court grants free-speech win for Fresh Vision community group in Overland Park
Writing that the “Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits,” United States District Judge for the District of Kansas…
City of Edgerton falsely claims people are paying less in property tax
The City of Edgerton claims property taxes have declined for the average homeowner since 2008. That’s the message to residents in…
Study finds wide disparity in county spending per resident in 2022
A new study by the Sentinel’s parent company, Kansas Policy Institute, shows massive differences in county government spending per resident…
USD 241 Wallace County refuses to allow homeschool athletes to participate in sports recognition
Homeschool students who played for Wallace County High School were unfairly neglected and discriminated against during athletic recognitions earlier this…
144,000 Kansas voters are “inactive”, counties work to reduce backlog
With elections approaching, nearly 144,000 Kansas voters are listed as “inactive”, defined in statute as a registered voter who has…
Judge expands Title IX injunction to hundreds of schools in 44 states
In early July, Federal Judge for the District of Kansas John Broomes issued a preliminary injunction halting the implementation of…
JoCo moving forward with hotel as new homeless shelter, wants cities to buy-in
After approving late last year a plan to spend $6 million in COVID relief funds to purchase the LaQuinta Inn…
Employment of non-teachers rose since 2015 in Kansas while outcomes and enrollment decline
The hiring of non-teachers (administrators and all other employees who are not teachers) has continued an upward trend in Kansas…
Retired federal judge reacts to Chevron and Jarkesy SCOTUS decisions
In two days last month, the United States Supreme Court dealt devastating blows against the administrative state and for constitutional…