A little red car trudges through dirt roads and dodges potholes before it zooms down the highway. In the car is Isabel Yara and her daughter. Yara spent most of the early morning getting her daughter ready for a doctor’s appointment. But Yara lives in rural southwest Kansas, and seeing the ...
Teachers in the Lawrence school district will see an $800 base salary increase next school year if school board members finalize a tentative agreement with the teachers union on Monday. According to the board's meeting agenda for Monday, the school board and the union reached the tentative ...
TOPEKA — Emporia State University president Ken Hush announced his retirement Thursday, nodding at past and future challenges in higher education. Hush, an Emporia State graduate, wrote in an email to alumni, staff and students that his last day will be Dec. 17. He plans to stay involved, he ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is releasing billions of dollars in withheld grants for schools, the Education Department said Friday, ending weeks of uncertainty for educators around the country who rely on the money for English language instruction, adult literacy, and other ...
As a 16-year old in Overland Park, Jawad Albadawi watched what his parents — immigrants from Syria — were doing. His dad was working 20-hour shifts with Uber and his mom was working any number of odd jobs to make ends meet. Albadawi knew the one thing he wasn’t going to do: Nothing. ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Trump administration this week canceled a $4.9 billion federal loan guarantee for a new high-voltage transmission line for delivering solar and wind-generated electricity from the Midwest to the eastern U.S., but the company indicated that project would go forward ...
