A bill that would further tighten how universities could teach diversity, equity and inclusion topics in the classroom was scheduled to get a key vote in the Kansas House on Wednesday, but the hearing never materialized. On Thursday, an assistant with the House Education Committee told the ...
Tuition may be frozen and tenure may be broken. Those are two of the bigger issues that leaders at the University of Kansas and the state’s other universities are watching as the Kansas Legislature enters a critical period for new laws that would impact higher education. One proposal that ...
TOPEKA — Central Christian Academy and Atchison County Community Schools serve distinct K-12 populations, but superintendents of both oppose a proposed mandate by the Kansas Legislature to force private and public schools to ban personal cellphones and other electronic devices during school ...
University of Kansas students who get their health insurance through a special program overseen by the Kansas Board of Regents are expected to see their premiums rise slightly next school year. The Board of Regents at its meeting on Wednesday is being asked to approve premium increases of a ...
Jurors have awarded $8.3 million to the family of a Kansas foster teen who died in 2021 after he was held facedown for 39 minutes in a juvenile intake center while in the throes of a mental health crisis. Five juvenile officers in Sedgwick County either used excessive force on Cedric ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas House committee recommended a budget for the state’s six public universities that freezes tuition rates, reduces need-based student aid, requires development of plans to lower central administration expenditures by 10% and offers faculty one year instead of two to fix ...