Posted Date: 04/16/2024
Teacher salaries are an important consideration as districts seek to hire and retain staff. Last year, the total average Kansas teacher salary, including supplemental pay and fringe benefits, was . . .
Posted Date: 04/15/2024
As a small community facing big changes, Minneola USD 219 is working to keep up high performance. Located 20 miles south of Dodge City, Minneola has 250 students and an average high-needs student . . .
Posted Date: 04/12/2024
In the early hours of Saturday, April 6, Kansas House and Senate negotiators agreed to a conference committee report on House Sub for SB 387 after it failed in the Senate on April 4. This bill . . .
Posted Date: 04/10/2024
Haviland USD 474 is one of the smallest districts in the state with just 119 students and only grades kindergarten through eighth. Their reading and math results are among the highest in Kansas. In . . .
Posted Date: 04/03/2024
KASB, USA-Kansas, the Kansas State Board of Education, KASEA and KNEA oppose SB 387 as agreed to in conference. This bill does not include a long-range plan to fully fund special education. Instead, . . .
Posted Date: 04/02/2024
One path to success is sometimes to turn perceived weaknesses into strengths. With about 330 students in a county-wide district on the border in southwest Kansas, Comanche County USD 300 leaders . . .
Posted Date: 04/02/2024
A new survey of Kansas teacher attitudes offers ideas on how to help keep educators in the profession at a time when most school leaders say finding and keeping teachers is one of their greatest . . .
Posted Date: 03/27/2024
I often tell school board members through the strategic planning process they can do anything they want as a school district, just not everything. It is the time of the year when school boards . . .
Posted Date: 03/26/2024
Hays USD 489 has the largest enrollment in northwest Kansas with around 3,100 students. It is also getting some of the highest student success results in the state when considering its size and . . .
Posted Date: 03/20/2024
Great Bend USD 428 is a central Kansas district of 2,900 students. I visited as part of my tour of schools that perform above expectations based on family income and student disability rates. Great . . .