Education

The Overland Park Chamber of Commerce Foundation has joined in with a national effort to improve youth civics education and engagement with a National Civics Bee.  Much like a spelling bee, the National Civics Bee — part of the U.S....

While the USD 232 in De Soto Board of Education has its reservations about the state's open enrollment policy, the school board still plans to formally adopt it. At a public hearing on Nov. 6, the school board had its...

Open enrollment rules are now on the drawing board in the Shawnee Mission School District, as board members and administrators look for a way to adapt to a new Kansas law that requires school districts to accept out-of-district students...

By Maria Benevento Avila University can lift restrictions that some donors placed on their gifts now that a judge on Wednesday has approved the school’s petition to start spending more than a third of its endowment. The move, which Jackson County...

By Suzanne Perez When Kansas lawmakers convene at the Statehouse in January, their to-do list could include several measures that would affect public school districts and students. A special committee on education, chaired by Republican Rep. Kristey Williams of Augusta, met over...

By Suzanne Perez Three years after the pandemic sent most Kansas kids home to learn, schools have a vexing new challenge: getting them to come back to class. Missing school has become a crisis statewide. More than one in four Kansas...

Internet access is the key to educational equity, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona emphasized during a stop in Overland Park on Tuesday. Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel joined Secretary Cardona at the Johnson County Central Resource Library. The...

Since Kansas became the first state outside of Tennessee to join Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program nearly two decades, roughly 4 million free books have gone into the hands of Kansas children. More recently, the Shawnee Mission Education Foundation partnered...

Correction: Candidates running for the Shawnee Mission school board who campaigned against an anti-racism curriculum in 2021 did not win seats on the board. An earlier version of this story was incorrect. By Suzanne Perez At a national summit this month,...

Correction: The team made a raspberry lime layer cake for the dessert at the national competition. A team of Shawnee Mission culinary students achieved a first for the school district after placing fifth at a prestigious culinary competition last month in...

By Maria Benevento For 50 years, serving on a school board in Kansas meant committing to hours of work — maybe as much as a typical full-time job — for no pay. But now, a recent change in state law allows...

By Laura Ziegler Franny Zender, 7, wore a pink summer dress and matching pink headband to pull back her unbrushed blond hair, hair that tumbled down her back as if it had just dried after a day at the pool. Folding...