CHANUTE — The USD 413 Board of Education appointed Matt Koester as the new superintendent of USD 413 schools. The announcement was made on Thursday, marking the culmination of a selection process that saw Koester…

Crest school honored its Leadership Character Champs on Friday, Nov. 17. Being recognized were front row, from left, Lennie Boone, Lawson Holloway, Maysyn Bain, Emmett Beebe, Bud Sanchez, Kreed Miller and Aidynn Edgerton; back row,…

TOPEKA — Kansas communities rejected multiple far-right candidates for school boards in what a national education group has characterized as a U.S.-wide trend of demanding “real solutions” on the local level.In many of Tuesday’s statewide…

The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts. “Please do something,” begged…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Democratic governor on Thursday vetoed parts of the Republican-backed $6 billion funding plan for the state’s K-12 schools, setting up a likely legal battle that will test her office’s powers.…

Rachel Starke decided to shirk her principal responsibilities on Wednesday for something much more important: recess. Starke, a kindergarten student at Iola Elementary School, was one of two students selected to serve as “Principal For…

HUMBOLDT — School board members are expected to decide by April whether they will institute a four-day school week for Humboldt-USD 258. A committee looking into pros and cons of a shorter school week will…

“You’ll get a sticker,” a student at Iola Elementary School whispered to a friend who wasn’t feeling well. Sara Clift overheard the conversation and smiled. It makes her job a lot easier when children feel…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — An armed former student broke into a St. Louis high school Monday morning warning, “You are all going to die!” before fatally shooting a teacher and a teenage girl, and wounding…