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Before a group of Heights High School students met poet Taylor Mali via video conference on Tuesday, they watched some of his spoken-word performances:
A new attendance boundary plan presented to Wichita school board members Monday would close four elementary schools, relocate Northeast Magnet High School and keep most high school assignments the same.
TOPEKA – Officials from several of Kansas’ largest school districts criticized Gov. Sam Brownback’s school finance formula Monday, saying that it freezes funding after years of cuts and isn’t flexible enough for changing demographics.
The idea of a school equipping students with laptop computers used to make Bunny Hill a bit of a skeptic.
Voters in Mulvane will decide in May on a $13.4 million bond issue to pay for school additions and improvements.
As Kansans we live by our motto, “Ad astra per aspera," which is Latin for "To the stars through difficulties."
The pool of 11 finalists competing for this year’s lucrative Gore scholarships at Wichita State University was so strong, even the nine students who weren’t chosen will be offered four-year scholarships worth at least $20,000, a WSU official said.
Over the past five years, the Wichita school district has bought several properties near Lincoln Elementary, an aging school building being considered for closure.
Students in a predominantly African-American area of northeast Wichita would continue to be assigned to seven different high schools and various middle schools, according to a new boundary plan presented to an advisory group Thursday night.
Wichita State University will introduce its Gore Scholarship winners this morning at the school’s Marcus Welcome Center.
Wichita school board members on Monday got their first chance to pose questions publicly about a tentative plan to close some schools and redraw district attendance boundaries. Before that, they heard from nearly 20 parents, students and neighborhood leaders who urged board members to keep their schools open.
A group of Bel Aire parents and residents upset about the Wichita district’s tentative attendance boundary plans for two new schools in their area have come up with two proposals that they say are a meet-in-the-middle compromise.
This week Charity Chapman will once again review her notes and collect her posters — the ones that say “We (heart) Emerson” and “Size matters! Small schools are better!”
Wearing hard hats and dodging piles of concrete mix, plumbing supplies, tile and grout, Wichita school leaders got an inside look Friday at two schools nearing completion in northeast Wichita.
African-American leaders in Wichita say they want school officials to halt plans to close schools and redraw district boundaries, saying the current proposal raises too many questions and is being rushed toward approval.
After months of developing and debating new school attendance boundaries, Wichita school officials will begin hearing this week from those who would be affected most by those changes: students and their families.
For a brief time on Sunday, the McCormick School Museum was filled with people again.
Parents at Wichita’s Woodland Elementary School on Friday were cheering and planning a celebratory pancake feed, relieved to be off a list of suggested school closings.
A revised boundary plan for Wichita schools would keep Woodland Elementary open but close Emerson, another magnet elementary in the North Riverside area.
Derby school officials say they’ve waited and studied long enough: The district needs a new middle school, a central kitchen, roof repairs and other improvements.
