Archery added to Hays middle school's P.E. offerings
One of the goals in Kirk Maska's physical education classes at Kennedy Middle School is to help students develop skills they can use the rest of their lives.
One of the goals in Kirk Maska's physical education classes at Kennedy Middle School is to help students develop skills they can use the rest of their lives.
The number of public school students attending charter schools in Kansas City increased by 15 percent this year, and state educators say there are multiple reasons.
Caldwell Elementary Keeping Kids Warm event, 8 a.m. to noon Wednesday, 1441 S. Edgemoor. Each student will receive a coat, gloves, hat and backpack filled with school supplies as part of a national program sponsored by Lane Bryant and other women's retailers.
The Wichita board of education honored its first-quarter 99% winners at a school board meeting Oct. 20. Students are chosen on the basis of grades, attendance, good behavior and not having received other recognition.
Wichita school district residents will vote Tuesday on a $370 million bond issue to build new schools, renovate existing schools, expand technical education programs and upgrade athletic and fine-arts facilities.
Most of the kids who competed in Saturday's BEST robotics competition at Wichita State University will never make a game-winning touchdown or a basket at the buzzer.
Parents of students at Martin Elementary School in Andover will receive a letter today explaining why the school was put on lock-down for about an hour Thursday, a district official said.
Northwest High School senior Jessica Hardy did for the first time on Wednesday something she said her mother never has done -- she voted. Hardy was one of two dozen students of voting age bused from the high school to the Sedgwick County Zoo to vote in advance.
The Reading First program has helped students in Wichita's highest-poverty elementary schools significantly improve their reading skills and helped reading scores rise districtwide, a school official said.
The Health and Wellness Coalition of Wichita has announced winners of its Healthy Youth Award picture and essay contest. First-place winners received $100 gift cards; second place, $75 cards; and third place, $50 cards. Winners are from Wichita unless indicated.
Wichita school officials figured they had a solid strategy for bond issue victory: Follow the blueprint for the district's last successful bond issue in 2000.
The Wichita school district delivered on the promises of the $284.5 million bond issue voters approved in 2000, bond supporters and opponents say.
Wichita school district residents will vote Nov. 4 on a $370 million bond issue to build new schools, renovate existing schools, expand technical education programs and upgrade athletic and fine arts facilities.