Finalists announced for ed commissioner

Topeka The State Board of Education announced Alexa Posny, an assistant education commissioner, and Sharol Little, superintendent of the Manhattan-Ogden school district, as the two finalists being considered for the position of state education commissioner.

The board’s announcement came after interviewing four candidates for the job vacated by Andy Tompkins, who had served as commissioner since 1996, the longest tenure of any education commissioner in Kansas history.

Tompkins has taken a position as an associate professor in the Kansas University School of Education’s educational leadership program.

His replacement could be announced by the end of the month.

Boeing-Wichita sale

Onex, union to resume talks

On its first day as the owners of commercial aircraft operations in Wichita, Onex Corp. announced it would resume talks with its largest union on Monday.

Onex received a formal request Friday from the machinists to return to the bargaining table, a day after the Canadian investment firm bought the plant from The Boeing Co.

Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers turned down a contract proposal last month. Onex closed the sale anyway and offered individual Boeing machinists jobs with the new company at a 10 percent pay cut.