Kansas City Public Schools

Este mes los estudiantes del área de Kansas City regresan a la escuela. Mientras tanto, los distritos escolares se esfuerzan por contratar suficiente personal en medio de la escasez nacional de maestros.

Kansas City area students are heading back to school this month. Meanwhile, school districts are pushing to hire enough staff amid a national teacher shortage.

Dr. Jennifer Collier has taken on the role of interim superintendent for Kansas City Public Schools. After the departure of longtime superintendent Mark Bedell, she says she knows "exactly what we need to do to move forward."

Fifty high school students in Kansas City Public Schools are experiencing a different kind of summer education as they explore different careers in the classroom and beyond.

Kansas City Public Schools superintendent Dr. Mark Bedell is exiting after six years. He led the struggling district through some major transitions — including regaining full accreditation — and tells KCUR he leaves the district in a "much better situation."

Dr. Mark Bedell, who led Kansas City Public Schools for the last six years, oversaw the restoration of full accreditation to the district for the first time in eight years.

Mark Bedell is the school district’s longest serving superintendent in more than 50 years. Under his leadership, the struggling school district regained full accreditation.

One national alumni group spent two decades collecting, preserving and archiving material from throughout the history of Lincoln College Preparatory Academy. It's finally open to the public.

One Kansas City school says the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need to support student needs past the academic year and through the summer. Plus, Kansas foster parents say the lawyers assigned to advocate for children rarely meet, and fail to protect, the kids they represent.

More than 100 people gathered at Passantino Bros. Funeral Home to say goodbye to Manuel Guzman, a 14-year-old student fatally stabbed by another 14-year-old at Northeast Middle School on April 12.

Under a bill passed by the Missouri House, millions in public school funds from both Kansas City and St. Louis Public Schools would have been transferred to charter schools. But the Senate's substitute bill would use state money to fund charters instead.

Kansas lawmakers are on the verge of letting students attend public schools outside the districts where they live. That push to open enrollment pits conservative school-choice advocates against school administrators. Plus, America’s entire fleet of long-range stealth bombers are based at Whiteman Air Force Base 60 miles east of Kansas City.