Author Paul Griffin didn’t just ask Iola High School senior Jake Skahan to share his story. He coaxed it out of him. It started with the usual “getting-to-know-you” chitchat in an auditorium filled with a…

The Humboldt school board’s decision to stick with a five-day school week gives the county’s other districts a little more breathing room on the matter. In Iola’s USD 257, Superintendent Stacey Fager said “it hasn’t…

HUMBOLDT — School board members in USD 258 are expected to decide on Monday whether to change to a four-day school week. The district released survey results that show a majority of parents, students and…

TOPEKA — The Republican majority on the Kansas House K-12 budget committee bundled into one bill controversial diversion of state tax dollars to private schools with an expansion in state aid for special education in…

Mustang spirit was on full display at Monday night’s USD 257 school board meeting. The board met at Iola High School’s new science center and cafeteria, where Principal Scott Carson showed off a new audio/visual…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to results of a national…

Plans to convert Iola’s three former elementary schools into housing took a big leap forward on Monday. School district officials approved a pre-development agreement with BNIM, a Kansas City, Mo.-based architect and design firm that…

TOPEKA — The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas condemned a school district’s discussed transgender policy as potentially illegal and harmful, in anticipation of a deciding vote on the matter. Parents, students and board members…

There’s no going back now. Crews started moving into the new Iola Elementary School on Wednesday morning, even as construction continued throughout the building. The plan for an Aug. 16 open house, with the first…

It’s a scenario parents and teachers face all too often. A child complains of a sore throat and goes to see the school nurse. Yes, the nurse determines, it looks like there could be a…