(Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment in a series of articles related to the April 2 USD 257 school bond referendum. You can read previous articles in the series here. )   Schools matter to…

Morgan Dieker experienced culture shock the first time she walked into a chemistry laboratory at the University of Kansas. “The whole lab was indescribable. The equipment was different, things I’d never seen before,” she said. …

More than a year ago, the first meeting of a steering committee to study USD 257 schools brought together dozens of residents with different ideas on what was needed. They seemed to sort themselves into…

Committees working toward passage of a bond issue to build a new elementary school for USD 257 will be formed tonight beginning at 6 o’clock in the assembly room of the basement of the Allen…

There are two ways to react to failure: Give up or see where you went wrong and try again. So give USD 257 district officials credit for attempting another bond issue after its 2014 proposal…

USD 257 board members and the public can expect to hear a long-awaited proposal for a new elementary school in Iola at a meeting tonight. A steering committee has been studying the state of district…

The public is invited to a meeting Tuesday evening at LaHarpe City Hall to discuss a proposed new elementary school for USD 257 students in preschool through fifth grade. Engineers and architects with Schaefer Johnson…

What became clear to members of a school steering committee Thursday afternoon was that each time they present their plans to a group of the uninitiated, they’re going to have to start at square one…