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School districts sitting on $1.25 billion in operating cash reserves
New data from the Kansas Department of Education show school districts collectively added $68 million to their operating cash reserves…
Democrats push property tax hike on cars, farms, businesses
With the legislative session just around the corner, Kansas House Democrats are pushing a big property tax increase on cars…
Secret Codes curriculum unlocks the science of reading
The nation’s literacy crisis could easily be solved if educators simply started with the “Secret Codes” which unlock the mystery…
Homeschooling jumps 57% in Kansas while public school enrollment declines
Calling it “the most detailed look to date at an unprecedented period of growth in American homeschooling,” the Washington Post has…
Pennsylvania settlement allows parents to opt students out of SEL
In a victory for parents, America First Legal recently announced a settlement agreement in a lawsuit it filed earlier this…
NCTQ: Kansas among the states using weak teacher licensure test for reading
A new study by the National Council on Teacher Quality is casting doubts on the teacher licensure tests in many…
Leavenworth supers want more money, higher property tax, no accountability
The 2024 legislative agenda that Leavenworth County superintendents are proposing for adoption by their school boards is loaded with demands…
Judge blocks abortion notification requirements in Kansas
A Kansas court has temporarily blocked a long-standing abortion law called the “Women’s Right to Know Act.” On Oct. 30,…
Health textbook with explicit sexual content pulled in Spring Hill
A “health” textbook describing everything from anal sex to “rational suicide” and presenting ideas such as the “gender spectrum” as…
Race-based, income-based achievement gaps widen in Johnson County
Achievement gaps in math and English Language Arts are worse for minorities and low-income students in the three largest school…
State audit: just spending more won’t improve achievement
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly is touting recent slight increases in state assessments as proof that more spending results in improved…
KU graduate teaching assistant union calls Israel ‘settler colonial project’
As Israel responds to the vicious terror attacks by radical Islamist group Hamas, a graduate student group based at the…
Herington Hospital closure is unrelated to Medicaid expansion
Kansas Democrat Governor Laura Kelly is once again using the closure of a rural hospital to push for Medicaid expansion…
2023 ACT scores drop beyond 30 year low
A little more than a week after the Kansas Association of School Boards touted Kansas as one of only six…
Education bureaucracy pushing the status quo in hearings
Legislative hearings over this and last week are focusing on how to improve outcomes in Kansas education, perhaps unsurprisingly, the education…
Compass Academy Network prevents summer learning loss in middle school
An innovative new program based out of Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School in Joplin, Missouri, is hoping to make a…
Hays High School construction project, restrooms stirs controversy
Ground is set to be broken at the new Hays, Kansas High School soon, and it is unclear if the…
Ottawa beekeeper wins sweet victory for home-based businesses
People in Ottawa, Kansas who want home-based businesses to sell honey and produce won a victory recently, thanks to Ellen…
ADHD medication shortage causes difficulties for patients
A shortage of medication for sufferers of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), many of them children, has persisted for much of…
Prominent scientists balk at climate change narrative
For years the refrain has been “the science is settled,” never mind that actual science is never settled — but…
Kansas loses private sector jobs while adding government jobs
Through the first seven months of 2023, seasonally adjusted numbers show Kansas has lost 2,700 private sector jobs, while adding…
Legal experts savage the Marion County Record affidavit
Two Kansas legal experts are not mincing words about the affidavit used to secure the search warrant that led to…
Johnson County policy raises 1st Amendment issues
Last week the Johnson County Commission adopted a new policy that raises serious 1st Amendment issues. It was added as…
Chief of Shawnee Tribe says KU professor falsely claims Indian descent
A University of Kansas professor who claims to be of Indian descent is falsifying his ancestory, according to Shawnee Tribe…