education

As Kansas City grapples with community violence, a new youth internship program is aiming to change the trajectory of at-risk teens. The model has helped cut crime and boost graduation rates in Omaha, and is showing early signs of success here.

The open letter urged the Blue Valley School District — one of the Kansas City metro’s largest — to change its current policy and require “universal masking” of all students, staff and visitors inside its facilities.

On Monday night, amid growing concerns about the delta variant of the coronavirus, SMSD became the only public school district in northern Johnson County to require at least some students to wear masks upon returning for in-person learning next month.

Most school districts have either said masks won't be required when the fall semester begins, or haven't decided. That conflicts with some expert advice.

In a hearing that only included witnesses on one side of the debate, lawmakers attempted to determine if concepts from a controversial legal framework have made their way into public school curriculum.

This fall, educators are adjusting their lesson plans to make more time for social and emotional skills, after last year's pandemic-related closures kept many kindergartners at home.

Joe Oswald repeated the N-word while disciplining a student. The school board decided not to fire him for it.

Kansas City Public Schools is undertaking a substantial shift in the way that it disciplines its students.

Kansas City Public Schools has shifted its code of conduct away from strict discipline, and a local Astrologist gives Steve Kraske a reading.

The complex has completed its first major renovation in more than 20 years and the largest since the museum opened in 1957.

Two years and $29 million have transformed the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum and the continuing influence of President Truman's policy decisions.

Study shows that for every 200 Latinx students, there is one Latinx educator.