Students at Marmaton Valley USD 256 are learning, quite literally, that you reap what you sow. The district is spearheading an effort to promote resourceful and healthy eating as part of its curriculum. According to…

A party is in the works for the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.  This fall will mark the 60th anniversary for the performing arts center. A gala is planned for Sept. 14, promising an event that…

The biggest question facing USD 257 in 2024 will be what happens to its three former elementary schools. The district has agreed to a plan by BNIM, Kansas City-based developers, that will convert the three…

Stacey Fager, superintendent for Iola schools, is concerned lawmakers will bring back several educational bills that narrowly failed the last legislative session. The 2024 Kansas Legislature convened Monday.  Two issues in particular — commonly known…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Chamber released a legislative policy agenda Thursday endorsing a proposed single rate state income tax, opposing expansion of Medicaid health coverage to 150,000 low-income Kansans and supporting investment of state tax…

TOPEKA — Rep. Kristey Williams and Sen. Renee Erickson agreed there was little value in convening a task force to study the state’s shortfall in funding public school special education programs because the financial issues…

WICHITA — A new state law that goes into effect next fall lets Kansas students attend schools outside the districts where they live, as long as there is space available. School leaders in some high-demand…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Taya Sullivan, 20, is a freshman at West Virginia University, double majoring in neuroscience and Spanish. She also has a campus job in a linguistics lab, building on her majors and earning…

TOPEKA — A  Girard dress code policy that led to the forced cutting of an 8-year-old Native American boy’s hair has been rescinded.  Girard School District Board of Education members voted unanimously during a Thursday…

CHANUTE — Siblings Cathy Taylor and Alexander Mih kept their parents’ first loves of education and the fine arts as their objective in deciding to use their third passion — agriculture —  as a means…