Published January 30th, 2023
Students join in the call for school choice at the Kansas capitol
(The Sentinel) – It was standing – and sitting on the floor – room-only, as some 200 students and educators from as far away as…
Published January 26th, 2023
Lansing parent wins school curriculum challenge
(The Sentinel) – Kirsten Workman, the Lansing mom who withdrew her 12th-grade daughter from an English Composition class over content she found objectionable and mounted a…
Published January 26th, 2023
Study: Low achievement and teacher pay despite school funding increase in Kansas
(The Sentinel) – A report on education spending and student achievement covering the last three decades in Kansas shows that many students have been academically…
Published January 19th, 2023
Interstate compact could bring out-of-state teachers to fill Kansas vacancies, state board hesitates
(The Sentinel) – An interstate compact that would recognize teacher licenses from other states and alleviate the classroom instructor shortage is stalled in the Kansas…
Published December 29th, 2022
Residents in this Kansas school district question curriculum, content in dual credit courses
(The Sentinel) – Taxpayers in the Rose Hill USD 394 school district voiced concerns at a recent school board meeting about curriculum content in a…
Published December 12th, 2022
Oregon teachers quit union, Kansas teachers need legislative relief
(The Sentinel) – Oregon school districts added about 2,100 teachers in the last school year, but union membership in the Oregon Education Association (OEA) dropped…
Published December 8th, 2022
Kansas school district to close a school for financial windfall
(The Sentinel) – The Prairie Hills School Board meets December 12th to consider closing the Wetmore Academic Center, and is expected to schedule a future…
Published November 29th, 2022
Large Kansas school district focuses on equity audit, DEI while achievement plummets
(The Sentinel) – Student achievement is precipitously dropping in Olathe USD 233, but district administration and the board majority seem more concerned about an equity…
Published November 22nd, 2022
Kansas K-12 spending ranked #11, but ‘bang for the buck’ falls to #38
(The Sentinel) – Public school spending and student achievement in Kansas resemble an escalator; one side (spending) goes up, and the other (achievement) goes down.…
Published November 17th, 2022
Kansas parent addresses school board with content, curriculum concerns
(The Sentinel) – Kirsten Workman, who withdrew her daughter from high school English class over her concerns its content focused more on Critical Race Theory,…
Published November 15th, 2022
Kansas parents explain the homeschooling surge
(The Sentinel) – K-12 schools in Kansas have lost more than 10,000 students since the beginning of the pandemic, and homeschooling registrations have more than…
Published November 4th, 2022
CRT is taught in Kansas, says Lansing school board member
(The Sentinel) – Education officials insist that the tenets of critical race theory are not being taught in Kansas and other states, but a new…
Published October 31st, 2022
Kansas parent on marxist material objection: School admins ‘corralled me into a curriculum challenge’
(The Sentinel) – A Lansing parent has removed her high school senior from an English Composition class, contending the materials in the curriculum reflect political…
Published October 6th, 2022
Accrediting agency coaches member schools in ‘wokeness,’ not student achievement
(The Sentinel) – The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), with five member institutions in Kansas and six in Kansas City, MO, is targeted by critics for…
Published September 15th, 2022
Kansas school board delays decision on transgender policy
(The Sentinel) – Approval of a transgender policy on restrooms and other issues at Gardner-Edgerton USD 231 will be delayed for at least a month…
Published September 12th, 2022
Kansas school superintendent, board president silence parents upset by transgender issue
(The Sentinel) – USD 491 Eudora superintendent Stu Moeckel and school board president Mark Chrislip denied parents’ requests to address the board about mistreating a…
Published August 22nd, 2022
Kansas superintendent, school board face backlash over lack of transparency
(The Sentinel) – It’s been a summer of discontent among Louisburg USD 416 patrons over recent actions by its superintendent and school board with accusations…
Published August 18th, 2022
Kansas school district rejects plan promoting ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ agenda
(The Sentinel) – The Derby USD 260 school board narrowly rejected a proposed five-year strategic plan for the district because opponents objected to what they…
Published August 10th, 2022
Kansas athletic association seeks ‘fairness’ for public schools, but not for biological girls
(The Sentinel) – The Kansas Board of Education will consider a recommendation approved by the Kansas State High School Activities Association (KSHSAA) to effectively penalize…
Published August 9th, 2022
Two incumbents ousted in Kansas State Board of Education primaries
(The Sentinel) – Two newcomers won seats on the Kansas State Board of Education in Republican primaries, each defeating an incumbent. In District 5, Cathy…
Published August 5th, 2022
Kansas legislators: State board must get honest about education failures, like Gov. Youngkin in Virginia
(The Sentinel) – Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s bleak but refreshingly honest end-of-the-school-year report on K-12 education in the commonwealth focused on many of the issues facing…
Published August 4th, 2022
Kansas mom delivers scathing indictment of her large school district’s dyslexia services
(The Sentinel) – Olathe mom Amanda Thompson, frustrated by what she saw as the Olathe School District’s inability to improve her children’s dyslexia and achievement…
Published July 27th, 2022
Three challengers take on incumbents in Kansas State Board of Education primaries
(The Sentinel) – The August primary will feature three Republican incumbent members of the Kansas State Board of Education squaring off against opponents. There are…
Published June 10th, 2022
Five myths about school officials’ attempt to excuse low student achievement in Kansas
(The Sentinel) – The recent report from the Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB) on K-12 student assessment entitled Understanding State Assessment Data is rife…
Published June 3rd, 2022
Kansas mom spearheads petition for right to speak at public meetings
(The Sentinel) – An online petition is proposing to amend the Kansas Open Meetings Act to require all meetings of public bodies and agencies, particularly school…
Published June 2nd, 2022
Parents raise concerns about Kansas middle school theatre teacher
(The Sentinel) – Controversy swirled around Basehor-Linwood Middle School Reading/Theatre instructor Sarah Homan at the school year’s end, as several parents with children under her…
Published June 1st, 2022
KNEA mum on achievement declines suffered with remote learning
(The Sentinel) – The Kansas National Education Association won’t comment on a Harvard University study that shows student achievement declined with remote learning during the…
Published May 27th, 2022
Open Enrollment, other education reforms signed into law by Kansas governor
(The Sentinel) – Beginning in 2024, open enrollment will permit any Kansas student to transfer schools, based on the receiving school’s capacity, following Governor Laura…
Published May 20th, 2022
NCTQ: Teacher training in Kansas lacks math commitment
(The Sentinel) – A nationwide study of 1,100 elementary teacher training programs, including 16 in Kansas, shows more than 20% fail to provide adequate instruction…
Published May 18th, 2022
Olathe rewards superintendent Yeager for DEI, not academic improvement
(The Sentinel) – USD 233 Olathe Superintendent Dr. Brent Yeager can earn a $25,000 annual bonus for implementing the school board’s diversity and other objectives,…
Published May 16th, 2022
Prosecutor considers election bribery charge against Hays superintendent
(The Sentinel) – Ellis County Attorney Robert Anderson, Jr. is reviewing the results of an investigation into election bribery by Hays USD 489 Superintendent Ron…
Published May 11th, 2022
Ohio mom prevails in free speech case over local school board
(The Sentinel) – An Ohio mother filed a free speech lawsuit in federal court against her school board after being ordered to “zip it” by…
Published May 5th, 2022
KSHSAA competitive balance effort for schools, not biological girls
(The Sentinel) – The Kansas State High School Activities Association (KSHSAA) allows transgender biological males to compete against biological girls, but it draws the line…
Published April 19th, 2022
Masterson vows override efforts on Kansas Parents’ Bill of Rights, fairness
(The Sentinel) – Senate President Ty Masterson criticized Gov. Laura Kelly’s vetoes of the Parents’ Bill of Rights, Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, and a…
Published April 4th, 2022
Study: Masks get failing grade in keeping kids in school
A study of the nation’s 500 largest school districts indicates that masking children in school had the opposite effect that proponents hoped — children in masked districts…
Published March 25th, 2022
Open Enrollment bill narrowly approved in Kansas House
(The Sentinel) – Kansas K-12 students will be able to transfer and attend any school district in the state, depending on capacity limitations, under a…
Published March 24th, 2022
Kansas school district rejects parents’ concerns over inappropriate library books
(The Sentinel) – The USD 450 Shawnee Heights school district has twice rejected parents’ concern that their children are exposed to pornography and other objectionable content…
Published March 21st, 2022
Remedial Ed audit finds systemic deficiencies in KS school system
(The Sentinel) – A recently released state audit disclosed that about a third of Kansas high school graduates took at least one remedial course in college. …
Published March 14th, 2022
18 Kansas teachers pledge to teach CRT tenets
(The Sentinel) – Against a backdrop of curriculum transparency and Parents Bill of Rights legislation, comes a reminder that 18 Kansas teachers signed a pledge…
