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AMERICUS, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas school district plans to offer anti-discrimination training to staff and teachers in response to complaints about how an eighth-grade student was treated after she said she was a lesbian. North Lyon County officials...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — One of Kansas' largest public school districts plans to require elementary students to wear masks this fall after a health official warned that the faster-spreading delta variant would lead to widespread COVID-19 among...

Students in Wichita, Kansas, public schools can ditch the masks when classes begin. Detroit public schools will probably require them unless everyone in a room is vaccinated. In Pittsburgh, masks will likely be required regardless of vaccination...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The health department in Kansas' most populous county urged its public schools Monday to require students and staff who aren't vaccinated against COVID-19 to wear masks indoors when classes resume for the fall. The Johnson...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Board members of a southwest Oklahoma City school district have defied the state Board of Education and hired an interim superintendent. The Western Heights school board voted 3-1 Thursday to name assistant Superintendent Kim...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State University plans this fall to stop allowing Kansas residents 60 and older to audit its courses for free. The university sent a letter this month to people who've previously audited its classes to notify them of...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — A former Stillwater Junior High School history teacher and coach who helped organize the teacher walkout in 2018 has been sentenced to prison for engaging in sexual communication with a minor. Alberto Morejon, 28, was...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Public school teachers in Oklahoma could have their teaching licenses suspended for teaching certain concepts about race and racism under new rules approved Monday by the State Board of Education. With just one opposing vote,...

The U.S. has seen a string of COVID-19 outbreaks tied to summer camps in recent weeks in places such as Texas, Illinois, Florida, Missouri and Kansas, in what some fear could be a preview of the upcoming school year. In some cases the outbreaks have... Full story

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Most Kansas schoolchildren and teachers, regardless of whether they've been vaccinated against COVID-19, won't be required to wear face masks next school year. Schools find themselves under pressure to return to more normal,...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A $2.1 million federal grant awarded to Wichita State University for new aerospace research facilities is expected to create nearly 500 jobs over the next 10 years. The U.S. Commerce Department announced the grant to the...

AMERICUS, Kan. (AP) — A civil rights group is threatening to sue a Kansas school district if it doesn't train employees about LGBTQ rights in response to an eighth-grade student being suspended from riding a school bus after saying, "I'm a...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — The first woman chosen as president of Oklahoma State University is officially on the job. Dr. Kayse Shrum's first day in Stillwater was Thursday. Shrum had been president of the OSU Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The annual Oklahoma FFA convention is moving to Tulsa after 15 years in Oklahoma City because Oklahoma City officials could not provide a long-term guarantee to the FFA for the space needed in late April each year. The city...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas does not plan to use a policy that would have made it easier to suspend tenure protections, Chancellor Douglas Girod said Thursday. Girod told the Kansas Board of Regents he was confident the...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has appointed a former railway executive, a former state senator and an educator to the board that governs the state's six universities. Kelly announced in a Wednesday news release that she appointed...

To improve its board oversight, the state’s largest online school has turned to a businessman who founded the state’s first rural charter school. Paul Campbell was named chairman of Community Strategies, Epic Charter Schools’ governing board,...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Overnight summer camps will be allowed in all 50 states this season, but COVID-19 rules and a pandemic labor crunch mean that many fewer young campers will attend, and those who do will have to observe coronavirus precautions...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A teenager died Tuesday after a shooting near an elementary school in Kansas City, Kansas. Kansas City, Kansas, police spokeswoman Nancy Chartrand said in a statement that the happened Tuesday near Hazel Grove Elementary...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas police arrested a former school worker for sexual exploitation of a child Friday. Riley County police arrested 31-year-old Junction City man Aaron Zachry, The Manhattan Mercury reported. He's jailed on a $60,000 bond....

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Board of Regents has asked the state's six public universities to provide a list of courses that include Critical Race Theory concepts. The regents request came in response to a request from Sen. Brenda Dietrich, a...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The governing board of a virtual charter school that has grown to become the largest public school in Oklahoma voted to end its contract with the for-profit school management company owned by its co-founders. Epic Charter School...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A high school student told a sheriff's deputy that a Kansas House member kicked him in the testicles while the lawmaker was working as a substitute teacher in his hometown last month, according to the deputy's written...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State University President Richard Myers said Monday that he intends to retire at the end of the calendar year. Myers has been the university's president since 2016. The statement announcing his plans did not mention...

AMERICUS, Kan. (AP) — Two school district employees in eastern Kansas should be disciplined for suspending an eighth-grade student from riding the school bus after she said "I'm a lesbian," the Kansas Association of School Boards has determined....