Education
Shawnee Mission Superintendent Pans Legislative Efforts
The superintendent of the Shawnee Mission School District is taking umbrage at some of the financial inquiries coming from Kansas lawmakers and from an outside audit firm hired by the Legislature to study the efficiency of state government. Jim Hinson was particularly insulted that the Legislature’s Special Committee on K-12 Student Success, which is looking…
Charting New Ground
Kansas City Public Schools (KCPS) on Tuesday won approval for an education initiative that is unique within Missouri. Meeting in Jefferson City, the Missouri State Board of Education OK’d KCPS’s plan to open a kindergarten-thru-sixth-grade school that will be free of many of the rules and regulations set out by the Missouri Department of Elementary…
Leveling the technology playing field
It’s never fun to get a poor report card, but it’s even worse when the bad marks are due to circumstances beyond your control. That’s the way Superintendent Dennis Carpenter felt when the organization he leads, the Hickman Mills School District, fared badly on its most recent annual performance report from the Missouri Department of…
Parents, staff pan KC school district plan for Attucks Elementary
About 80 people attended a Wednesday evening open house hosted by Kansas City Public Schools (KCPS), and a sizeable contingent came with one question: Why Attucks? Staff and parents wanted to know why the district was proposing to close Crispus Attucks Elementary School, located at 2400 Prospect Ave. “What is the district trying to do?”…
KC Osteopathic School On Track To Open Joplin campus
The Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences is nearing a milestone in its march toward opening Missouri’s first new medical school in four decades, with a fundraising campaign for its Joplin campus now entering the home stretch. The Joplin-area committee running the campaign has commitments for more than 80 percent of the $30 million…