Laura Caillouet-Weiner got a little emotional on the last day of school. After more than 40 years, she’s saying goodbye to Jefferson Elementary School.  She’ll keep teaching, but next year she’ll be moving to the…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly signed Monday a bill providing more than $6 billion for K-12 education and making several policy changes, including a controversial provision allowing students to openly transfer to districts around Kansas.…

A dozen Iola High School students cheered and celebrated as school board members agreed to spend $50,000 to replace outdated weightlifting equipment.  Weight teacher Mike Wilhelm and wrestling coach Jason Bates asked the board to…

WICHITA, Kansas — Kansas public schools feel the pinch of enrollment losses that came with the COVID-19 pandemic — and it could mean fewer teachers, bigger classes and widespread budget cuts. The number of students…

Sage Barney was offered a choice not often afforded to high-schoolers her age. See, her family had been living in Michigan, but moved to her grandparents’ house in LaHarpe in the fall of 2020, when…

Think of it as a murder mystery set millions of years ago. Paleontologists excavate an area and discover a variety of dinosaur bones. They wonder: “Why are there so many meat-eating dinosaurs and so few…

Campaigns to remove books from schools and libraries in the United States have increased dramatically in recent years. This book-banning frenzy has risen to such absurd heights that a recent headline read: “Florida rejects 41%…

Iola High School’s forensics team may be young, but they’ve already accomplished a lot. The team placed first in four forensics meets this year, including the Pioneer League meet. They received 136 medals for the…

TOPEKA — Republican legislators pushed through Thursday a mega education bill to fully fund schools and enact more than a dozen policy provisions, including one that would allow students to transfer to any public school…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State funds for Kansas’ public schools have been held up as Republican lawmakers push for policies critics say would punish educators for court rulings that forced the GOP-controlled Legislature to boost…