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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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Teacher-poet Taylor Mali speaks to Heights students via Skype
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New Wichita school boundary plan scales back some changes
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.
Wichita: School finance plans would hurt districts with at-risk students
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A computer for every kid at Collegiate
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Kansans here and away celebrate state’s anniversary
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Wichita State’s Gore scholarships awarded to Carbondale, Wellsville students
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Wichita school district bought property near school considered for closure
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Part of northeast Wichita would stay boundary-free in new schools plan
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 to announce Gore scholars this morning
Wichita State University will introduce its Gore Scholarship winners this morning at the school’s Marcus Welcome Center.
Packed Wichita school board meeting focuses on boundary plan
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.
Bel Aire residents will offer alternative to Wichita school boundary plan
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.
Emerson Elementary parents to keep airing concerns over Wichita boundary plan
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Wichita district leaders see how new northeast schools are taking shape
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.
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