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Engineering takes its place in Derby schools

BY LORI YOUNT, The Wichita Eagle | Today at 12:06 a.m.

The Derby school district is leading the Wichita area in providing state-of-the-art engineering classes in middle and high schools, and it will lead the nation by being the first to offer the engineering classes at an elementary school.

  • District to combine south-side schools

    BY LORI YOUNT, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 20 at 12:03 a.m.

    The best place for the Wichita district's new south elementary school will be the current site of Lewis Open Magnet Elementary School, district officials said Thursday.

  • Cost of university housing may rise

    By DAVID KLEPPER, Eagle Topeka bureau | Nov. 20 at 12:03 a.m.

    TOPEKA — The cost of room and board at Kansas' public universities is inching up, even as tuition increases and state funding for higher education drops.

  • New south-side school could be built alongside Lewis Magnet

    BY LORI YOUNT, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 19 at 10:23 a.m.

    WICHITA — The best place for the Wichita district's new $10 million south elementary school would be at a current school's site, district officials said today.

  • Regents: State needs to consider tax hike

    By JOHN HANNA, Associated Press | Nov. 19 at 12:05 a.m.

    TOPEKA — Two members of the board overseeing Kansas' higher education system said Wednesday that the state needs to consider raising new tax revenues because of its budget problems.

  • Class project becomes way to help family

    BY LORI YOUNT, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 19 at 1:52 p.m.

    Most students in Youth Entrepreneurs Kansas class start a business to get their first taste of profit.

  • Driver's ed official hopes state funding will be safe

    Associated Press | Nov. 18 at 12:05 a.m.

    HUTCHINSON — While more than a dozen Kansas school districts dropped driver's education programs last year because of the state's budget troubles, the programs' state director hopes the trend won't continue.

  • States eye college-credit exchange Web site

    By DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press | Nov. 17 at 12:06 a.m.

    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —A dozen Midwestern states are studying the creation of a college-credit exchange that could make it easier for college dropouts to finally complete their degrees.

  • Board hears tech ed magnet plans

    BY LORI YOUNT, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 17 at 12:06 a.m.

    The Wichita school district's $10 million technical education magnet high school program should be a first choice for students — not a back-up if college looks unlikely, administrators and business leaders told school board members Monday.

  • Read and wiggle with preschoolers

    BY SUZANNE PEREZ TOBIAS, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 16 at 12:06 a.m.

    Before gathering at the table for a big meal or settling on the couch for another football game, consider picking up a book — and wiggling.

  • Schools: Lawsuit better than cuts

    BY LORI YOUNT AND JEANNINE KORANDA, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 15 at 2:49 a.m.

    Schools are gearing up for a legal battle against state legislators — a battle that lawmakers say Kansans can't afford. A coalition of 57 districts met last week to discuss suing the state because of cuts to education funding that they said could leave schools short on money for years to come.

  • In 25 years, program grew from Mo. to world

    By JOE ROBERTSON, Kansas City Star | Nov. 15 at 12:06 a.m.

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. —The news was spilling from journals on neuroscience:

  • Gifts to KU athletics up sharply

    By ANDY HYLAND, Lawrence Journal World | Nov. 14 at 12:06 a.m.

    LAWRENCE — The pace of giving to University of Kansas' athletics has increased more dramatically than giving to academics.

  • Wichita students receive H1N1 vaccine at school clinics

    BY SUZANNE PEREZ TOBIAS, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 14 at 3:28 a.m.

    Eight-year-old Jessica Roberts half-smiled, half-winced as nurse Trish Bell plunged a needle filled with H1N1 vaccine into her arm. After a quick "ow-ow-ow-ow" muttered under her breath, the tears flowed.

  • Catholic schools celebrate excellence

    Nov. 13 at 12:04 a.m.

    Several schools run by the Wichita Catholic Diocese received "standard of excellence" awards from the state.

  • Nation's expected teacher shortage turns into a glut

    By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press | Nov. 13 at 12:04 a.m.

    LAWRENCE — When Lilli Lackey started college, talk of a growing teacher shortage gave her confidence that a job would be waiting for her when she got out.

  • KU monarchs to take part in gravity study in space

    BY RON SYLVESTER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 12 at 7:29 a.m.

    Chip Taylor is used to people giving him strange looks.

  • State school board fears more cuts

    Associated Press | Nov. 11 at 12:03 a.m.

    TOPEKA — Members of the State Board of Education expressed frustration Tuesday that further cuts in Kansas public schools would hurt the quality of education.

  • Wichita schools pay to join fair-funding coalition

    BY LORI YOUNT, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 10 at 12:04 a.m.

    Saying they don't want school funding to come to a lawsuit, Wichita school board members voted unanimously Monday to spend more than $89,000 to join a coalition of schools whose previous lawsuit forced a massive increase in state funding.

  • Four Wichita elementary schools to offer H1N1 vaccine

    BY LORI YOUNT, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 10 at 10:17 a.m.

    Wichita schools will begin offering H1N1, or swine flu, vaccines at four elementaries on Friday.

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