A student’s GPA, career interests and even whether they’ve failed a class could soon determine how much they pay to participate in career and technical education (CTE) programs. New Kansas legislation set to take effect…

TOPEKA — Four Johnson County public school districts want to sue the state of Kansas for more than 15 years of inadequate special education funding. The districts formed the Kansas Public School Funding Coalition and…

Every election year there are uncontested offices, so that the incumbent office-holders automatically win.  While that sometimes occurs for federal positions, it is most consequential in state legislatures, where crucial policies are decided in elections…

As a journalist, sometimes you make an error. And I’ve always believed that when you publish something that’s wrong, you need to be up front about it, acknowledge it, and correct it as soon as…

Kansas was born arguing. Before it became a state, before there was a Capitol dome in Topeka, the Kansas Territory was consumed by a defining question: whether it would enter the Union free or slave.…

Well, that didn’t take long.  When the Kansas Legislature passed the so-called KIRK Act to prevent colleges and universities from regulating political activism on campus, I warned that lawmakers were rolling out a welcome mat…

TOPEKA — A Kansas task force is running out of time to craft a new public school funding formula, which the Legislature and the state’s next governor must agree upon before the current framework expires.…

TOPEKA — Kansas revenue forecasters expect income tax collections to fall below previous predictions for this year and next, complicating a budget outlook that shows the state plunging deep in the red for the next…

State Rep. Fred Gardner, Garnett, said he weighed in where he could this recently completed legislative session and otherwise let others have the spotlight.  A semi-retired veterinarian, Gardner, 72, is in the last year of…

Everybody hates property taxes. But Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly should still veto — quickly — a new anti-tax bill that legislative Republicans just sent to her desk.  It’s an anti-democratic bill. One that would, if…