Students may be staying at home, but area teachers and administrators are back at work, figuring out how to educate them for the rest of the year. Meals will be available to students starting today…

Area students can pick up free meals starting next week, even as in-person classes are canceled for the remainder of the school year. Iola, Marmaton Valley and Humboldt school districts have announced plans to offer…

There’s more to the new coronavirus than the number of cases confirmed here in Kansas. The Kansas News Service wants to make it easy for you, so we’ve put together a list of things you…

Kansas became the first state in the nation Tuesday to declare its schools would close for the remainder of the school year.  By now, a majority of states have closed their schools, though to a…

Under the current plan, students will return to Iola schools Monday. But as the national and state responses to a deadly new coronavirus continue to evolve, school administrators are taking things day by day. USD…

Allen Community College has listed its honor students for the Fall 2019 semester. President’s List (4.0 GPA) From Iola: Carolyn Appleton, Hannah Bartlett, Ellie Carson, Jaden Channel, Megan Erbert, Addison Prather, Jessica Tidd, Noah Westervelt,…

Kansas educators want lawmakers to act on health care, bullying and college credits when the Legislature convenes later this month. For over a decade, the school funding battle has dominated any conversation about education in…

Jennifer Nielsen, author of “A Night Divided,” a story of a girl and her family divided by construction of the Berlin Wall at the onset of the Cold War, will talk about her book Tuesday…

Educators and researchers say there’s an inverse relationship between students’ grades and cellphones in the classroom. The easier it is for students to access their phones during class, the lower their grades tend to be.…

A viral video of elementary students, clutching lunchboxes while traversing a narrow catwalk of benches assembled down a flooded school hallway, has provoked varying reactions. One is that Houston ISD’s decision to hold classes Thursday…