Kansas City Kansas Public Schools (KCKPS)

For students who've only ever attended Zoom kindergarten, there was a lot to learn as Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools reopened for in-person classes.

Maria Martinez, interna en educación se pregunta cómo será enseñar a su clase de kinder por primera vez este año. Así se ha preparado para ellos.

Maria Martinez, a student teacher at Mark Twain Elementary, wonders what it’ll be like to teach her kindergarten class in person for the first time all year. Here’s how she prepared for them.

Maria Martinez is a senior at Emporia State University in Kansas. She is currently a student teacher in a kindergarten classroom in the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools.

Maria Martinez, una estudiante en su último año en Emporia State University en Kansas, está estudiando como interna en educación en Kansas City, Kansas.

It’s been a year since Gov. Laura Kelly closed every school in Kansas to slow the spread of coronavirus — and some educators have been teaching remotely ever since.

After a month of having only virtual classes, Kansas City Public Schools is considering letting some students return to school.

One of the biggest decisions schools have faced was whether falls sports would be played, giving parents and students another decision to make with possibly long-term implications.

Schools count on census to help them serve vulnerable kids, but many of those families haven't filled it out yet. Disruption caused by the coronavirus could mean less money for years to come.

At least in coronavirus hotspots like Wyandotte and Johnson counties, it’s starting to seem like Gov. Laura Kelly will get her way.

In all the talking and planning about reopening after the coronavirus shutdown, there's a key voice being ignored: the worker.

Superintendent Mark Bedell wrote in an email to families Monday that the delay in announcing plans for the fall is the result of coronavirus cases “rising rapidly in our region.”