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KSBRC event attracts experts discussing ways to improve student achievement
With the theme of Improving Student Achievement by Changing Adult Behaviors, the Kansas School Board Resource Center (KSBRC) brought education…
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…
KSBRC events focus on adult behaviors, communication skills, to improve student achievement
The Kansas School Board Resource Center (KSBRC) will host a pair of events in Wichita on November 8th and 9th,…
Kansas mom sues state cosmetology board over a sugaring licensing requirement
Sugaring, an ancient Egyptian form of hair removal that dates back 30,000 years, is at the center of a constitutional…
Education leaders, prosecutors weigh in on truancy, chronic absenteeism
Amid increases in chronic absenteeism, defined by the Kansas State Education Department (KSDE) as a student missing 10% of the…
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…
Rumblings in WYCO indicate Unified Government not so unified
Discontent among member cities and a budget deficit approaching $1 billion has Bonner Springs, Edwardsville, and Kansas City, Kansas leaders…
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…
Race-based, income-based achievement gaps widen in Johnson County
Achievement gaps in math and English Language Arts are worse for minorities and low-income students in the three largest school…
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…
Johnson County Election Office ordered to stop sending pre-filled ballot applications
Amid voter complaints and concerns for privacy, Secretary of State Scott Schwab ordered the Johnson County Election Office to halt sending…
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…
K-12 bureaucracy ignores flaws in special education funding formula, calls for more money
Despite testimony that some K-12 funding related to special education (SPED) services is not counted toward SPED funding, the Kansas…
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…
KSDE Star Awards recognize process, cover up declining outcomes
The Kansas Department of Education’s Star Awards program is another means of covering up low achievement and helping school districts…
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…
Group claiming to be moderate wants to protect education status quo
Declaring that rural communities in Kansas are threatened by school choice advocates, a group of former legislators have founded Kansans…
JOCO political parties active in non-partisan races this fall
Local elections, those for city councils and school boards, for example, are officially non-partisan contests in Kansas; candidates are not…
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…