A company can’t wait 100 years to upgrade its business model.  Education should be no different.  “But we have only two models. One-room schoolrooms of 100 years ago, and today’s outdated model,” which is in…

In addition to addressing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic at their meeting Monday evening, USD 257 school board members tackled several other tasks, including the approval of a negotiated agreement between the National Educators Association of…

At this point, area schools will start the new school year much like they ended the last one when it comes to COVID-19 restrictions: Masks will be recommended, but not required. Superintendents and school boards…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A growing number of Kansas school districts are imposing mask mandates because of the more contagious COVID-19 delta variant, just before in-person classes resume for the fall. As of Tuesday, at…

State officials told Kansas schools they could fill the air with chemical mist to fight COVID-19 in classrooms. The suggested gadgets coat doorknobs, tables and other surfaces with disinfectant. But when the Kansas News Service…

Once a new science and technology building is completed, it will be another year or so before the old one comes down. USD 257 board members decided to hold off on demolition of the science…

The earliest a new elementary school will open in Iola will be more than a year away, in next February, barring any weather delays. Meanwhile, the new science and technology building remains on track to…

In the next few months, Iola residents will see a lot of concrete poured at the sites of two new school buildings. Construction is well underway at the site of a new science and technology…

Friday was my granddaughter Olive’s last day to attend school in person until January because of COVID-19. A fourth-grader in Topeka, Olive is a good student. Even so, asking her to continue her studies at…

Schools in Allen County can expect a boost in STEM programs thanks to nearly a million dollars in grants from the USDA. The grants will benefit schools in four counties: Allen, Franklin, Neosho and Woodson.…