Lawrence school board members at Monday’s meeting expressed concern over racial disparities in the area of reading and literacy skills for the district’s K-though-10 students. A review of the data for the current semester showed that at least 50% of the district's K-through-10 students ...

Wichita — As first-graders file through the cafeteria line at Earhart Elementary School in Wichita, they pick up peaches, broccoli and cartons of milk. Lunch supervisor Rachel Smith helps them with their trays and makes quick notes on her tablet to log names with lunches. You can’t tell ...

Starting Dec. 2, students making their way to school shouldn’t expect to see a crossing guard stationed at seven crossings added as pilot locations for the first half of the school year. The City of Lawrence announced late last week that the seven pilot crossing guard locations the city ...

GIRARD — Officials at R.V. Haderlein Elementary in Girard forced an 8-year-old Native American boy to cut his hair, despite objections that he grew it out to connect with his cultural heritage. The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas warned the district in a letter Friday that the ...

WASHINGTON — The federal government has opened civil rights investigations into seven schools and universities over allegations of antisemitism or Islamophobia since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. The list includes three Ivy League institutions — Columbia, Cornell and the University ...

Updated at 11:06 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 16 Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach recently endorsed a report from the state's Medicaid inspector general that could serve as a basis for increased scrutiny into the backgrounds of Kansas public school employees. Kobach said on Nov. 1 that he wanted ...