Barbara Shelly
ContributorBarbara Shelly is a veteran journalist and writer based in Kansas City, Mo. She has been an opinion columnist, metro columnist, editor and reporter for The Kansas City Star and is currently a contributing writer for The Pitch and a frequent guest on KCPT’s “Week in Review.”
Barbara specializes in writing about Kansas and Missouri state governments, schools and colleges and health care.
Her interests include bikes, biographies, piano, people, family, friends, cats and kids. Her favorite pursuits are travel and hanging out on her front porch in Kansas City’s Waldo neighborhood.
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School districts are required by law to help homeless children stay in school. Most Kansas City-area districts take that role seriously, but the Blue Springs School District may be undercounting its unhoused kids — and failing to provide them critical services. -
Research shows that students who are worried about having a safe place to stay ihave lower grade point averages than their peers and higher rates of anxiety and depression. But housing options are rare at urban community colleges — and not offered at other systems in the Kansas City area.
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Mayors and local officials founded Climate Action KC, and are taking measurable steps to reduce emissions and create healthier communities throughout the Kansas City metro.
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The district’s financial picture has improved, partly with the help of federal COVID aid, and the board last year approved a substantial pay bump for teachers.
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Kansas City, Kansas, Police try something new to get unlicensed cars off the road: Teach driver's edBecause the Kansas City region mostly lacks reliable public transportation, people routinely drive without valid licenses. But that can mean court dates, escalating fines and bewildering encounters with law enforcement and legal bureaucracies
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Eviction numbers in many big cities are staggering, and school districts struggle to serve kids constantly on the move. The coronavirus crisis is making that job harder.
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Cancer survivors and their loved ones who attend meetings of the Prostate Network in Kansas City have talked for years about a radiation treatment called…
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A growing coalition of groups and citizens wants Wyandotte County to become the first place in Kansas to issue local identification to residents.Advocates…
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Updated at 6:30 p.m. June 6, 2019, with terms of the superintendent's buyout — The Center School District must pay more than $400,000 to buy out the…
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The Kansas City area is home to three agencies that work with the federal government to resettle people displaced from their home countries by war,…
