Suzanne Perez
Suzanne Perez is a longtime journalist covering education and general news for KMUW and the Kansas News Service. Before coming to KMUW, she worked at The Wichita Eagle, where she covered schools and a variety of other topics.
Suzanne grew up in North Carolina and earned a bachelor's degree in English from North Carolina State University. She moved to Wichita in 1990 and has two children. When not reporting, Suzanne enjoys reading, walking her dog, and obsessing over every new leaf on her houseplants.
Suzanne can be reached by email at perez@kmuw.org.
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Over the past 22 years, Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers has become one of the most successful restaurant concepts to ever come out of Wichita, with 540 restaurants in 36 states — and counting. -
Missouri and Kansas public schools enroll thousands of fewer students compared to before the pandemic, in part, because of a homeschooling boom and declining birth rates. -
Kansas public school leaders in some high-demand districts say they’re already hearing from families who want to switch schools to take advantage of a new open enrollment law. But the new law won’t be simple, and they’re not ready to just throw open their doors. -
Ahead of the Nov. 7 election, conservative candidates for school board seats across Kansas have repeatedly asserted that scores on the state standardized test show schools are failing. But experts say that's not necessarily true — and scores are just one part of the picture. -
Parents of Wichita elementary school students will get a copy of the book in advance of a district-wide lockdown drill next week. -
SB Mowing has more than 20 million followers on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. His time-lapse videos of lawn transformations have garnered more than 2 billion views. -
Political groups are holding workshops for school board members and starting local chapters to rally Kansas parents and recruit candidates. -
Research shows that most children need systematic, sound-it-out instruction — commonly called phonics — rather than older approaches that focus on context clues from pictures and stories. -
The law doesn’t go as far as a proposed Parents' Bill of Rights that Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed last spring. But it's raising similar questions and fears among teachers that routine classroom discussions might now be illegal. -
Emporia State University plans to eliminate some majors as part of a large-scale restructuring approved by the Kansas Board of Regents. Faculty at other state universities say the move could have long-term consequences for higher education.
