K-12 Education

Democrat Amy Diediker takes the open Kansas State Board of Education seat for District 3, with nearly 55% of the vote. She beat out Republican Jim McMullen for the seat, which flips to the Democrats with Diediker’s election. Four other...

Blue Valley is cutting more than $16 million between this year and next year to save its budget — from the discontinuance of the Chinese Immersion Program, to cuts across performing arts and even the suspension of several middle...

Longtime Shawnee Mission math teacher Jill Johnson can tell when a student uses artificial intelligence to do their homework. “They’d (students) take a picture of a math problem and put it into an app that would tell them how to...

Shawnee Mission welcomes two new high school principals this school year. The Post talked with both principals — at SM East and SM Northwest — about what drives them, their goals, their qualifications and more.  Leah Vomhof (Shawnee Mission East) A 1998...

Across Blue Valley’s six high schools, including the alternative school, four of them welcomed new principals this fall. The Post talked with each principal about what drives them, their goals, their qualifications and more.  Brad Page (Blue Valley North) Blue Valley North...

Teachers are typically working under new contracts by this time of year — but it’s an unusual year for De Soto teachers, who are still working to finalize contracts with the district. The USD 232 Board of Education, the De...

Tara Levin and her family moved to Blue Valley nearly a decade ago just for a chance to register her daughter into the district’s Chinese Immersion Program — she got in and the family made a 13-year commitment to...

Shawnee Mission’s Board of Education is weighing two options for an upcoming March bond that would fund the rebuilding of more aging elementary schools and a new career and technical education center.  But the proposals' outlines, presented to the school...

The Lenexa Planning Commission approved a long-in-the-works plan for St. James Academy to construct an auditorium to perform and showcase art on campus. On Oct. 5, the Lenexa Planning Commission recommended approval for a preliminary plan to build the future...

Frustrations and finger-pointing persist as the Gardner Edgerton School District looks to cut nearly $2 million from its budget following a controversial school board vote last month. At its meeting Monday, the Gardner Edgerton Board of Education heard an update...

Olathe families are trying to collect 6,100 signatures to trigger a state review of the six impending school closures in the Olathe Public Schools district. Families across the schools organized under Olathe Families United, formed in September to fight the...

Olathe Superintendent Brent Yeager has been named the 2027 Kansas Superintendent of the Year. The announcement, from the Kansas School Superintendents’ Association, came Monday morning, six years into Yeager's time as leader of Olathe Public Schools. It also comes at...