In spite of a nationwide teacher shortage, the Iola school district has a robust group of staff working toward their teaching certification. Board members on Monday agreed to a plan that would encourage those staff…

USD 257 leaders showed Rep. Fred Gardner, R-Garnett, around district facilities on Thursday morning. Superintendent Stacey Fager, school board president Jennifer Taylor and Iola Elementary School principal Andy Gottlob gave Gardner a tour of the…

BOSTON (AP) — Like a lot of high school students, Kevin Tran loves superheroes, though perhaps for different reasons than his classmates. “They’re all insanely smart. In their regular jobs they’re engineers, they’re scientists,” said…

School here started over a month ago. And while time flies for students and their families, the school year often passes by in warp speed for teachers and administrators.  As school districts across the country…

WICHITA — Three years after the pandemic sent most Kansas kids home to learn, schools have a vexing new challenge: getting them to come back to class. Missing school has become a crisis statewide. More…

A member of a steering committee that led a successful school bond campaign asked board members for an update on the financial impact of the project. Ray Maloney of LaHarpe, a steering committee member known…

COLONY — Voters in the Crest school district will decide whether to approve a $5.95 million school bond to improve facilities. The question will be on the Nov. 7 ballot. Community information meetings are scheduled…

TOPEKA — Kansas Department of Transportation secretary Calvin Reed pointed to workforce shortages as a significant challenge to the state’s multibillion-dollar, 10-year Eisenhower transportation program. Reed, nominated by Gov. Laura Kelly and endorsed by the…

It’s almost time for students to head back to the classroom. Area districts are enrolling this week for the fall semester.  Iola schools will enroll from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday and from 9…

Now that Ben Prasko has worked as technology director for USD 257 for a year, he has a better understanding of patterns. He knows the problems he’s likely to encounter again and again with certain…