Kansas City Public Schools

Infectious disease experts encourage enforcing social distancing and requiring face masks for students and teachers and say child-to-adult transmission of COVID-19 is rare.

Calls for reforming the Kansas City Police Department persist and the homicide count in Kansas City, Missouri, continues to rise. Mayor Quinton Lucas fields questions on police, violent crime, tax incentives and the coronavirus pandemic.

Mayor Quinton Lucas wants voter input on local control of the Kansas City Police Department, advertisers are finding new ways to keep brands in front of consumers, and how the pandemic is affecting the wine industry.

The vote came after a scathing letter from the superintendent of Kansas City Public Schools, who said allowing the Australian-based BlueScope Construction to not pay property taxes contributes to educational inequalities that are tantamount to racism.

Tax incentives again become a source of contention, on top of the pandemic cutting into the city’s revenues. But BlueScope Construction says its extension was in the works before the truce between Kansas and Missouri, while Kansas City Public Schools argue it’s not worth the loss in public funding.

Kansas and Missouri families whose kids normally eat for free at school are still waiting for the USDA to clear the way for assistance during COVID-19 crisis.

Like parents around the country, Michelle Haffer never imagined having to become her child’s full-time teacher. But Haffer’s daughter is out of school...

The spring semester is when most soon-to-be educators do their student teaching, but now they’re trying to figure out distance learning even as their own…

With schools around the metro closed to stop the spread of the coronavirus, food service directors in Kansas and Missouri have taken on a daunting…

With COVID-19 forcing schools across the metro to cancel classes and many peole to work from home, the “digital divide" between those with easy and…

Anticipating that coronavirus quarantines will strain the social safety net, Kansas City food pantries, soup kitchens and schools are coming up with…

Segment 1: The Department of Justice's Project Safe Neighborhoods funds new initiative against violent crime in Kansas City, Missouri.Backed by a $75,000…