K-12 Education

After months of building a budget, a failed vote and looming deadlines, the Gardner Edgerton School District moves forward with a reduced budget for next year with a shortfall of $3 million. District staff has worked since January to prepare...

More than three hours of deliberation Monday night led the Shawnee Mission Board of Education to delay the timeline on potential school boundary changes, as well as East Antioch Elementary’s recommended closure. The board heard three presentations during its Monday...

At Black Bob Elementary in Olathe, first grader Gavin Lyon has found friends whose first language isn’t his own. The dual Spanish-English Immersion Program at the school has enabled him to speak to students he might otherwise have had a...

Since Olathe West first opened in 2017, Megan Black has been a steady presence on the school's leadership team. As of the start of this school year, she's the school's top owl. The high school’s last principal, Jay Novacek, moved...

By Jodi Fortino Students across the Kansas City area were welcomed back to class this week by sweltering temperatures and heat index values in the triple digits. Local schools are no stranger to back-to-school heat waves. In recent years, school districts...

Community members held their breath while they waited for Olathe Public Schools to announce the list of schools recommended for closure Thursday night. Tears of grief soon followed. The district recommended at the Olathe Board of Education meeting Thursday to...

Editor's note: This story was updated at 4 p.m. Thursday to include comments from the Shawnee Mission School District. The proposed closure of East Antioch Elementary School is making waves in the school’s attendance area. A group of parents, students...

After months of consideration, the Gardner Edgerton Board of Education decided earlier this month to leave its open seat vacant until the 2027 election. The board conducted three candidate interviews in May but couldn’t reach a consensus on who should...

Federal officials announced Tuesday they are pursuing “enforcement measures” against the Shawnee Mission and Olathe school districts for the districts’ policies regarding transgender students. It’s the latest step in the federal probe, which launched a year ago, against the two...

People packed the Shawnee Mission Board of Education meeting room Monday night, many of them wearing green and yellow shirts and carrying signs that said, “Save East Antioch." Some held their breath while the board talked and a few...

To Christopher Kaberline's two young girls, Dolly Parton isn't an iconic global music legend. She's "Grandma Dolly." That's because they've grown up reading books provided for free by Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, titles like "I Am A Rainbow," "Ice Cream...

The Shawnee Mission School District is set to recommend that East Antioch Elementary, a small neighborhood school in Overland Park, be permanently closed in 2031. Families at East Antioch, 7342 Lowell St., found out about the district's proposal in an...