Tag: Education
State Board of Ed slaps down executive order delaying school opening
In a stunning rebuke Wednesday, the Kansas State Board of Education declined to ratify Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s executive order…
Heritage Foundation: parents deserve a refund from school closure
While many taxpayers and businesses are suffering — and failing — under the lash of the COVID-19 closures, school districts…
Informed consent legislation for release of sensitive student data fails
A House bill that would have required informed consent before parents allow their children to participate in a controversial survey…
Polls show overwhelming support for school choice
A new study by the American Federation for Children, conducted by Beck Research shows national support for school choice is…
Florida education reform film coming to Kansas
Florida students are making gains in reading and math at a faster rate than the national average as well as…
SFFF diverts $8.4 million from classrooms to pay lawyers
Kansas public school districts have paid more than $8.4 million in membership fees to Schools for Fair Funding (SFFF), an…
Kansas House Majority Leader: State “Just Robbing” Taxpayers
Apparently no one told the new House Majority Leader, Dan Hawkins, a Wichita Republican, that a blue wave had transformed Kansas…
Facing Deep Cuts, KU Staff Push Back Against Administrative Fat Cats
Facing cuts of more than 150 positions, angry employees of the University of Kansas are finally speaking out about the…
Kansas to Pay “Controversial” Outfit $270,000 to Recruit 3 Teachers
In 2015, the Washington Post published an entire chapter from a book called “Good Intentions Gone Bad” about the “controversial”…
Whoa! Missouri Teacher Busted on Sex Charges Rehired by Neighboring District
The arrest of a male Missouri teacher may force open the doors on a scandalous practice that has much too…
15 Months Into Campus Carry, KU Reports First Teeny Violation
Some 15 months into the University of Kansas’s “controversial” campus carry law, the Lawrence Journal-World inquired to see how many…
UMKC Prof Accused of “Modern Slavery”
For the second time in three years, a seemingly successful, high profile UMKC professor hailing from Asia has been accused…
Whoa! DOJ Investigates Sex Crimes, Harassment in Shawnee Mission Schools
For nearly two years now the Sentinel has been documenting the lack of media attention to sex crimes within area…
KU Coach Bill Self Has Lots of ‘Splainin’ to Do in Adidas Scandal
University of Kansas basketball fans are not thinking about the ongoing federal trial of Adidas executives in New York. They…
Witness Fingers KU B-Ballers In Adidas Scandal
On Thursday, cooperating witness T.J. Gassnola, a former Adidas consultant, detailed the payments he made to families and friends of current…
Has the Olathe District or KNEA Warned Students About Gay Sex Apps?
On Tuesday, Fox4KC reported the salacious details involving Justin Adrian, until last month an Olathe East High School teacher and…
Fired UMKC Whistleblower Seeks Justice
In an extraordinary memo this past March, UMKC Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer conceded that Dr. Richard Arend, until recently a tenured…
AP Slams Kelly for Claiming Kobach Called Schools “Overfunded”
When the Associated Press calls a claim in a Democratic ad false, as it did for a Laura Kelly ad…
Star Slights Trump Stump Speech For Hawley in Springfield
There are more than 20 news stories on the Kansas City Star’s Saturday home page, but none of them involves…
Missouri Parents Say Child’s School Collects Family Data for Google
The threat from Google to parents of school children would be ominous enough if Google were just another company, but…
Daily Kansan: KU Gambled on More Foreign Students, Lost
First off, kudos to the University of Kansas student newspaper, the Daily Kansan. Last school year, the Daily Kansan featured…
Real Star Headline: “Rockhurst High used paddling for discipline”
If any more proof were needed of the Kansas City Star’s flaming anti-Catholic prejudice, reporters Katy Bergen and Mara Rose…
Where’s the KNEA? Still Another School Teacher Busted For Sex With Kids
While the Kansas City Star is running breathless front pages exposés on a priest who left the area 42 years…
Shock Headline: “Kansas teachers union backs Democratic nominee for governor”
For some reason the Associated Press and the Kansas City Star thought it newsworthy that the National Education Association’s Kansas…