The Eagle recently filed a Kansas Open Records Act request for information about total compensation paid to Wichita school district administrators.
The Wichita school district has cut dozens of administrative positions in recent years, but part of the savings has gone toward higher pay for some remaining administrators.
A meeting of Wichita Independent Neighborhoods on Monday will include information and discussion about Southeast High School.
The Wichita school district has announced leadership changes for next school year, including new principals at Northwest High School, Northeast Magnet High and more than a dozen other schools.
Wichita students will head home for summer break soon, but many school cafeterias and other sites will continue to serve meals to hungry children.
Republican budget negotiators said they’ll consider a move to block any money that would be spent to implement Common Core standards for reading and math or Next Generation Science Standards in Kansas’ public schools.
Members of the public toured Southeast High School on Monday as part of district leaders’ effort to gather input about whether they should renovate and expand the school, build one or both.
John Castellaw adjusted his cap and gown Saturday evening at Charles Koch Arena. Within a few hours, he’d be a high school graduate.
Competing against nearly 300 students from 51 middle and high schools across Kansas, several Wichita-area students qualified to advance to the National History Day competition in June.
That new residence hall that John Bardo promised soon after becoming president of Wichita State University last year will start construction this month, WSU officials announced Thursday.
Just as students at Pray-Woodman Elementary in Maize have lessons in reading, math, science and P.E., they learn what it means to be a good person.
Wichita superintendent John Allison wants to beef up school security by installing new high-definition cameras, computers, keyless-entry doors, a revamped dispatch center and more.
Measures to increase learning time at Wichita schools likely will include optional programs such as after-school tutoring, Saturday school and summer school, not mandating a longer school day or school year for all students, district officials said Wednesday.
Maize school leaders have decided to discontinue random drug testing of students who participate in extracurricular activities, while the Mulvane district plans to begin the practice this fall.
The Wichita school district is one of five in Kansas to be listed among the 2013 Best Communities for Music Education by the National Association of Music Merchants, district officials announced Thursday.
With goals of gaining international recognition and maximizing the educational experience of its students, Wichita State University on Thursday unveiled a strategic plan outlining its first steps toward making the school an international leader in applied learning and research.
Teachers in the Deerfield school district in western Kansas soon will vote on whether to part ways with the Kansas National Education Association.
Some Wichita elementary and middle schools could be asked to adopt longer school days or years as part of measures intended to boost student performance, district officials said Tuesday.
If the Wichita school board opts to build a new Southeast High School, the old building could house district offices and technical education programs, Superintendent John Allison said Monday.
When Southeast High School opened at Lincoln and Edgemoor in 1957, it was the shining new jewel of the Wichita district.
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