‘Tis the season for holiday music.Iola schools and Allen Community College will have concerts almost every evening at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center during the next couple of weeks.On Tuesday, Iola Elementary School’s preschoolers will…

Real Encounter, a Christian outreach ministry, thrilled a full house Wednesday evening in Iola High School’s gymnasium.  The group uses extreme sports and motorcycle stunts to connect with audiences while sharing their evangelistic message.  Based…

WICHITA — Three years after the pandemic sent most Kansas kids home to learn, schools have a vexing new challenge: getting them to come back to class. Missing school has become a crisis statewide. More…

The White House on Tuesday held its first-ever cybersecurity “summit” on the ransomware attacks plaguing U.S. schools, which has included hackers leaking sensitive student data such as medical records, psychiatric evaluations and student sexual assault…

CLAFLIN — Barton County residents will decide whether to break up with their school district and “start fresh” following heartbreak and anger over the closure of a rural community’s high school. The change could result…

Sometimes, our toughest critics are the ones who help us believe in ourselves the most. Frank L. Cole, an author of young adult fantasy novels, spoke to area students this week about the craft of…

Kansas schools are back to in-person classes after the pandemic, but students have come back rowdier and more prone to behavioral blow-ups. In Wichita, the school year began with several large brawls and weapons arrests.…

TOPEKA — Senate President Ty Masterson and Rep. Kristey Williams delivered a series of inaccurate statements on gun violence, public school cuts and special education funding during an hourlong public forum Saturday in Augusta. The…

Author Paul Griffin didn’t just ask Iola High School senior Jake Skahan to share his story. He coaxed it out of him. It started with the usual “getting-to-know-you” chitchat in an auditorium filled with a…

The Humboldt school board’s decision to stick with a five-day school week gives the county’s other districts a little more breathing room on the matter. In Iola’s USD 257, Superintendent Stacey Fager said “it hasn’t…