Published January 31st, 2023
Kansas legislature considers bill to modify sports competition between public and private schools
(The Sentinel) – Last year, the Kansas State High School Athletics Association — which governs all high school sports in Kansas — adopted new rules…
Published January 18th, 2023
Kansas school district dodges questions about taxes ahead of huge bond issue
(The Sentinel) – School districts routinely ask voters to approve hundreds of millions in new bond issue debt with the promise that it won’t cost…
Published January 5th, 2023
Wichita private school, one of 8 finalists for Yass Prize, awarded $500,000
(The Sentinel) – A private school in Wichita, Kansas, which primarily serves African American students, was recently awarded $500,000 as one of the finalists for the…
Published January 5th, 2023
Fordham study finds positive impacts of Ohio’s EdChoice program
(The Sentinel) – A new study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute should allay concerns that school choice programs won’t benefit marginalized students. The Fordham…
Published December 1st, 2022
KS Supreme Court Justice Caleb Stegall resigns KU teaching position over university’s free speech failures
(The Sentinel) – Just over a month after an associate dean at the University of Kansas School of Law labeled a speech that had yet to…
Published November 29th, 2022
Kansas special education funding exceeded expenditures, contrary to claims of school funding advocates
(The Sentinel) – School funding advocates met at the Capitol in Topeka recently to make the case that special education in Kansas is underfunded. But other…
Published November 25th, 2022
KS education establishment out of touch with parents, student needs
(The Sentinel) – The education establishment in Kansas appears to remain remarkably out of step with parents’ and students’ needs. While polling in Kansas indicates…
Published November 3rd, 2022
Kansas school district says accountability is key to its performance; policy group to follow up with panel discussion
(The Sentinel) – The Wabaunsee school district has consistently outperformed surrounding districts and the state average on math and reading state assessments tests over the…
Published November 2nd, 2022
Candidate invitation to speak at Kansas school may be election law violation
A Derby High School instructor potentially ran afoul of state election law last week when she invited the Democrat challenger for the local State House…
Published October 28th, 2022
Rose Hill, Kansas students taught there are five genders in dual credit college course
A Rose Hill high school student who has been taking concurrent (sometimes called “dual credit”) courses at Butler County Community College said he was required…
Published October 26th, 2022
KU Law school says ADF discussion of the First Amendment is ‘hate speech’
(The Sentinel) – Last week the University of Kansas student chapter of the Federalist Society invited Jordan Lorence, the senior counsel and director of strategic engagement at the…
Published October 14th, 2022
Nurse practitioner fired over religious exemption for birth control files lawsuit
(The Sentinel) – A Kansas nurse practitioner says she was fired because of her faith – despite having had a religious exemption for years. Suzanne…
Published October 11th, 2022
National youth program’s ‘Thriving Model’ is grounded in equity, CRT, and Marxism
(The Sentinel) – In the spring of 2013, 4-H launched a nationwide program of youth development called the “Thriving Model,” which appears grounded in equity,…
Published September 7th, 2022
Book exposes how the Kansas education bureaucracy works against students
(The Sentinel) – One in three students in Kansas is below grade level in reading and math, but instead of addressing the problem, the bureaucracy…
Published September 1st, 2022
Teacher suspended over pronouns gets damages and disciplinary action removed
(The Sentinel) – A Fort Riley, Kansas, teacher who was suspended for refusing to use a student’s “preferred pronouns” has reached a settlement agreement with…
Published August 24th, 2022
Kansas education official insists schools are safe, experts disagree
Kansas State Board of Education Member Jim McNiece, whose district includes Wichita, took issue with a school safety report by Kansas Department of Education officials…
Published August 2nd, 2022
Kansas school districts (mostly) ignore school safety questions in wake of Uvalde report
(The Sentinel) – In the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the Texas Legislature issued a damning report which found “systemic failures”…
Published July 20th, 2022
Federal Judge blocks Biden transgender rules from taking effect
(The Sentinel) – In at least a temporary victory, a federal judge last week temporarily blocked a Biden administration rule forcing businesses and schools to…
Published July 18th, 2022
Education doesn’t appear a priority for the nation’s largest teacher union
(The Sentinel) – Last year the top priority of the National Education Association — the nation’s largest teacher’s union — appeared to be implementing the…
Published July 12th, 2022
Arizona, Virginia expand school choice options
(The Sentinel) – While some Kansas legislators remain unwilling to address parental concern over low and declining student achievement, the Arizona and Virginia legislatures are…
Published July 6th, 2022
School districts use ‘go-away’ prices on records requests to avoid transparency
(The Sentinel) – Fox News reports that parents across the country pursuing transparency are being charged exorbitant amounts by school districts in response to requests…
Published June 28th, 2022
Poll shows majority of residents in four states surveyed support curriculum transparency
(The Sentinel) – According to a new poll provided to The Daily Wire, an overwhelming majority of registered voters in Kansas and three other states…
Kansas’ ‘Value Them Both’ amendment allows regulations but doesn’t ban abortions as opponents imply
(The Sentinel) – Kansans will vote on a constitutional amendment known as Value Them Both on August 2 to determine whether there should be any…
Published June 20th, 2022
Educational inequality creates economic inequality in Kansas
(The Sentinel) – Kansas ranks in the bottom half of states in educational equality, which an economist says is directly related to the state having…
Published June 17th, 2022
A Kansas school board implements a Parents Bill of Rights
(The Sentinel) – On June 13, 2022, the Lansing, Kansas, Board of Education did what the Kansas Legislature was unable to do, passing a Parents Bill…
Published June 13th, 2022
Kansas is #32 in educational ‘racial equality,’ belying officials’ ‘anti-racism’ claims
(The Sentinel) – Kansas is the 32nd-worst state in the nation for racial equality, showing once again school officials’ alleged devotion to ending racism and discrimination…
Published May 17th, 2022
Eudora girl forced to share a bed with biological male on school-sponsored overseas trip
(The Sentinel) – On a school trip to Costa Rica earlier this month, three female high school students in the Eudora school district were assigned…
Published May 11th, 2022
Geary County teacher Pamela Ricard wins partial victory in pronoun lawsuit
(The Sentinel) – Geary County teacher Pamela Ricard has won an initial victory in her lawsuit against her school district’s pronoun policy. On Tuesday, a…
Published April 8th, 2022
Grades are in for Kansas schools: just one A, but 80 Fs
Only 8% of public schools earned an “A” or a “B,” compared to 40% of private schools.
Published March 29th, 2022
Kansas House passes needs assessment, other education reforms
(The Sentinel) – For years many school districts across Kansas have likely ignored a state law requiring an annual building needs assessment designed to improve student…
Published March 24th, 2022
Kansas Senate passes ‘Parents Bill of Rights’
(The Sentinel) – The “Parents Bill of Rights” and school curriculum transparency legislation passed the Kansas Senate Tuesday 24-15. However the bill – SB496 –…
Published March 11th, 2022
Emporia school board member sends police after parents
A member of the Emporia Board of Education allegedly attempted to have a member of the public arrested after disagreements over her votes on school…
