Tag: Education
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…
When Schools Are Ranked By Debt And Spending, Kansas Kicks Butt
If schools were ranked by debt and other financial measurements rather than achievement, Kansas would be a national leader in…
Mama Mia! USD 500 Super is the (pension) spiking queen!
USD 500 superintendent Cynthia Lane collected a number of laurels from the education lobby during her years while leading what…
Olathe East Teacher’s Suicide Will Not Stop Child Porn Investigation
The apparent suicide of Olathe East art teacher John Derby will not stop the police from completing their investigation into…
Higher Ed Pub Asks, “What About Kansas” On Subject of Free Speech?
One has to wonder whether the academic left does not understand the concept of free speech or merely pretends to…
Poll: Kansans Overwhelmingly Want the Court Out of Their Schools
Last week, the Kansas Supreme Court decided the additional $818 million Kansas lawmakers approved to fund public schools over the…
Will New KCK School Super Cut Through District’s “Uncharacteristic Stability”?
As KCUR’s Aviva Okeson-Haberman dutifully reported, parents and others supporters of the Kansas City, Kansas School District worry about what…
Ridicule Works: Missouri State Prof Cancels Her “Penis” Study
Missouri State University in Springfield found itself in the worldwide news this week for reasons that could not have pleased…