Teen mental health already was deteriorating before the coronavirus pandemic. In the two years since, the isolation, grief and anxiety created by school closures, deaths and loss of family income have led to even steeper…

Humboldt and Marmaton Valley high schools celebrated prom on Saturday. It turned out to be a beautiful evening for the event. Metallics, especially in bright colors, seemed to be the fashion of choice. 

TOPEKA — Family and child advocates gave lawmakers plenty of reasons to eliminate the tax burden on food during a hearing Wednesday in the House on competing sales tax reforms. The sales tax is regressive,…

TOPEKA — A coalition of Kansas faith leaders and education advocates are calling on lawmakers to reject legislation currently being drafted to ban or restrict teaching about U.S. racial history. More than 50 people gathered…

Some U.S. governors are taking broad steps to discontinue school masking, saying the pandemic precaution is outweighed by widespread vaccination, lower transmission and the need for unimpeded instruction. Governor Ned Lamont late Monday recommended that…

History depends on those who tell it. And no one tells it the same way. That’s the case with Iola’s first school bell, according to Donna Houser, a history buff who has been researching the…

TOPEKA — Lawmakers in the Kansas House began laying the groundwork last week for redirecting taxpayer money from public to private schools by holding a two-hour hearing on complaints two parents have with diversity and…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — More than 1,000 staff members in the state’s largest school district are in quarantine because of COVID-19, but currently all Wichita schools are open. The Wichita Eagle reports  that district records…

Two more Iola schools are now requiring students and staff to wear face masks because of a high number of COVID-19 infections. On Wednesday, Iola High School and Lincoln Elementary School reached the 4% threshold…

Last summer, the Iola school district decided to try a new program they hoped would allow students to stay in school rather than quarantine every time a classmate had COVID-19. That “Test to Stay and…