Tag: Education
KPI Honors 4 Topeka Schools For Improved Performance
The Kansas Policy Institute (KPI) does not award participation trophies. So parents at those four Topeka public schools that had…
Grades Are In For Shawnee Mission Schools, Parents Brace Yourselves
In a comprehensive review, the Kansas Policy Institute (KPI) has issued easily understood A-F grades for every school in the…
327 New KPERS “Millionaires” Join the 2,000 Existing KPERS Millionaires
There are many routes to making a million dollars, but the surest and safest one may be to get a…
KU Hard Pressed to Explain 42% One-Year Bump in Athletic Salaries
Although coaching salaries are paid out of a separate budget, non-coaching salaries in a university’s athletic department are not. Tax…
Kansas GDP Falls, But Lawyers Want $1.5 Billion “More” For Schools
Forget the GDP–the half billion or so of newly committed money is apparently not money enough for the lawyers representing…
Nearly 300 Kansans In Higher Ed Make 200K, More Than 100 At KU
According to figures released by the Kansas Policy Institute for the 2017-18 academic year, the State of Kansas pays 292…
Two KU B-Ballers Reportedly Got Big $$$$ In Adidas Scandal
Thomas Gassnola, an AAU basketball director accused of working with Adidas to bribe guardians or family members of basketball players…
Why Is KU Promoting Segregated Housing For Its LGBTQ Students?
At the University of Kansas, they call it “gender inclusive housing” but its effect is to shunt KU’s “transgender, non-binary…
Hickman-Mills Teacher Shows 5th Graders Pix of Naked Women, District Not Sure Why
Dominique Jones, the mother of a Hickman-Mills 5th Grader, had a hard time believing her daughter when she she said…
Huh? Profs Object to Bill That Protects Whistleblowing Profs
Greg Comer, a physics professor at St. Louis University and president of the Missouri Conference of the American Association of…
Will K-State, UMSL Mobilize To Protest Male-On-Male Rape?
There have been various marches and meetings on area campuses this year protesting rape and lesser varieties of sexual offense.…
KU IOA Office Reports 5 Times as Many Sexual Assaults as Campus Police
There is a huge disparity in the way KU’s office of Institutional Opportunity and Access (IOA) reports sexual assaults, and…
Kansas Union Prez Calls New Koch-Funded School “Living Laboratory of Elitism”
Leave it to United Teachers of Wichita president Steve Wentz to put a frog in the punch bowl of the…
For New Shawnee Mission Super, Salary Is Sweet, Perks Are Sweeter
Parents who once urged their children to go to med school or law school may be redirecting them towards the…
Kansas Senate Committee Advances “Campus Free Speech Protection Act”
On a voice vote Monday the Federal and State Affairs Committee of the Kansas Senate passed out of committee a…
Mueller Indicts Group Responsible for Fanning Flames at Mizzou
The first group Special Counsel Robert Mueller named in his indictment on Friday is the same group Lt. Col. Jared…
That Was Quick: KU Student Senate Defunds ‘Multicultural Student Government’
For a student body president to dismantle a funded entity on a college campus with the intimidating name “Multicultural Student…
Russian Bots Reportedly Fueled Racial Unrest During Mizzou 2015 Campus Protest
According to Lt. Col. Jarred Prier USAF, writing in Strategic Studies Quarterly, “Russian trolls seemed to target multiple groups to…
Wall Street Journal Exposes Likely Fraud at the Heart of 2015 MU Campus Protests
Reporter Jillian Kay Melchior of the Wall Street Journal took it upon herself in 2018 to do what local media…
KU’s Multicultural Student Government Manages to “Impeach” First President in “Messy” Procedure
The government of the United States of America was in business for nearly 80 years before it managed to impeach…
Kate Steinle “She Had Dreams Too” Poster Stirs the KU Snow Globe
Among the anonymous posters offending the diversity and inclusion crowd at the University of Kansas is one that shows an…
Statewide Missouri Survey Asks 6th Graders If They Want to Change Their Gender
The nerve of those parents in the Crawford School District who think it inappropriate for the State of Missouri to…
Kansas High Schoolers About to Get Famous on A&E’s 11-Part “Undercover High”
Tuesday, January 16, marks the debut of an 11-part series on A&E called “Undercover High.” The series follows seven twenty-somethings…
Female Missouri Teacher Accused of “Grooming” Middle School Boys for Sex
Former Joplin middle school teacher Amanda Schweitzer has become part of a disturbing and yet difficult to explain trend: female…