The number of K-12 students in Kansas classified as chronically absent from school surged to 24.5% during the 2021-2022 academic year as educators emerged from the darkest depths of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By a margin of about 2-to-1, Wichita school district voters opted to ditch the current hybrid voting system, which has been in place since 1994. Beginning next year, Wichita school board members will be elected in a fashion similar to city, county and state representatives.
An advisory group created by the Kansas Board of Education wants the board to recommend ending Native American mascots statewide a move sure to trigger anger and defensiveness in communities long wedded to school traditions.