Opinion
Recommendations to improve achievement by changing adult behaviors(The Sentinel) â Testimony submitted this week to the Kansas Special Committee on Education crystalized three unfortunate realities: (1) student achievement is low and has been trending down for many… Read More
Public Education
Kansas high school construction project, restrooms stir controversy(The Sentinel) â Ground is set to be broken at the new Hays, Kansas High School soon, and it is unclear if the USD 489 Board of Education has even… Read More
Homeschools
Kansans show micro schools and hybrids offer innovations in learning(The Sentinel) â Micro schools are the reimagining of the one-room schoolhouse, where class sizes are usually fewer than 15 students of varying ages, and the schedule and curriculum is… Read More
Public Education
Children exposed to porn, strangers via school tablets, apps: âNothing to screen these peopleâA mom in the Kansas City area thought her daughterâs fascination with âFurriesâ â sometimes described as a subculture of people interested in animals with human characteristics â reflected her… Read More
Culture
Kansas City librarian derides parents as âpeople who canât let other people have opinionsâ in front of audience of high school studentsAs Senior Teen Librarian at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, Kelsey Bates says she gets to âlive my dream of creating a warm and welcoming space… Read More
Homeschools
Upcoming âHeartland Hybrid and Microschools Summitâ in Kansas City set to grow education freedom movementIf education is the final frontier in American freedom, its pioneers and homesteaders are meeting in Kansas City next weekend to map the open prairie and help each other plant… Read More
Public Education
âDiplomas are more like attendance certificates.â Kansas K-12 academic achievement is plummeting despite higher graduation ratesDespite a significant decrease in attendance, declining test scores and worsening college readiness, Kansas schools are simultaneously experiencing a rise in graduation rates. How can this be? âLetâs put it… Read More
Courts
Some Kansas districts still paying millions to legal group to sue the state and monitor funds won(The Sentinel) â More than four years after the Kansas Supreme Court compelled school funding to be increased by more than $1 billion, 32 school districts in the state are still dues-paying… Read More
Culture
Johnson County, Kansas libraries to provide feminine hygiene products in menâs restrooms(The Sentinel) â Johnson County libraries in Kansas will soon provide tampons and other feminine hygiene products in the menâs restrooms. Male visitors to the various Johnson County Library… Read More
Public Education
Kansas schools continue to see a decrease in attendance three years post-pandemicThree years since the pandemic caused public schools to resort to online learning, Kansas schools are continuing to see a decrease in attendance. More than one in four Kansas students… Read More
Public Education
Kansas state school board member misrepresents SEL position(The Sentinel) â At the August board meeting, Kansas state school board member Ann Mah misrepresented a social-emotional learning (SEL) statement she attributed to Stand Together. Mah claimed that… Read More
Opinion
Kansas superintendent covers up poor student achievement at event(The Sentinel) â USD 259 Superintendent Kelly Bielefeld spoke to the Wichita Pachyderm Club recently, and like his predecessors, he went out of his way to hide poor student achievement for the… Read More
Public Education
Missouri, Kansas rank No. 1 and No. 2 in this alarming school sex assault category, while Biden admin focuses on âgender discriminationâ insteadÂStatistics released by the U.S. Department of Educationâs (DOE) Civil Rights Data Collection unit shows Missouri schools rank first in rapes and attempted rapes, behind Kansas and Massachusetts. âComparatively, the… Read More
Homeschools
Kansas legislators encourage homeschoolersâ participation: âYou know your child bestâFour legislators from the Kansas House and Senate urged homeschool families to get more involved in the stateâs educational policies, even inviting them to testify at legislative committees. âLegislation does… Read More
Public Education
Ethics Commission: No conflict of interest if school board member also works for teachers’ union(The Sentinel) â Shawnee Heights School Board Member Lauren Tice Millerâs additional responsibility as Director of Legislative and Political Advocacy for the Kansas Chapter of the National Education Association (KNEA)… Read More
Opinion
School choice supporter, former Dem Mesha Mainor refuses to use the poor and minorities for political gain(The Sentinel) â Hypocrisy: claiming to have beliefs to which oneâs behavior does not conform â has long been a defining characteristic of many politicians. But a few brave souls… Read More
Public Education
Kansas school districts lawyer up after one district closes academic center, sending more than 100 students to other schools(The Sentinel) â The Wetmore Academic Center (WAC) buildings are vacant as its former students prepare to return to classes elsewhere this fall, but there is plenty of activity in… Read More
Opinion
Kansas legal battle gets to the heart of how transgenderism aims to redefine reality(The Daily Signal) â In the lead-up to the Civil War, pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers rushed to Kansas to determine whether the Sunflower State would enshrine the âpeculiar… Read More
Opinion
Homeschool, private school students begin applying to play public school sports in Kansas(The Sentinel) â Applications for non-public school students to participate in public school activities began on Aug. 1 and so far, concerns schools would face a flood of homeschool or… Read More
Culture
KU professor falsely claims Indian descent, says Chief of Shawnee Tribe(The Sentinel) â A University of Kansas professor who claims to be of Indian descent is falsifying his ancestry, according to Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes. KU History Professor… Read More