In the most recent school year, 1,510 students applied to participate.

Emporia State University requests no hike, but warns strategy unsustainable

Salary, benefits and administrative support key to retention decisions.

The Trump administration says Olathe, Shawnee Mission, Kansas City, Kansas, and Topeka school districts violated Title IX and risk losing federal funding. At issue are their policies around transgender students' bathroom use and sports participation, and notifying parents about students using different pronouns or names in class.

The university in February 2025 modified policy for the following school year, requiring the hall's floors to be segregated by gender and students to use the bathrooms that aligned with the genders listed in their student files.

A slim majority of Senate Republicans still backed Senate Bill 254 to end the policy. On Monday, Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed the bill.

The appointee will serve through December of 2027.

The unscientific straw poll found almost 80% of 2,000 respondents have no confidence in Chancellor Doug Girod and CFO Jeff DeWitt.

Kansas state Sen. Brad Starnes, a Republican from Riley and a former district superintendent, wants K-12 public school students to learn about "communist and socialist regimes and ideologies," and take a civics exam to graduate high school.

The GOP bill would require schools to ask for legislative approval to participate in a federal free meal program, and make them verify the household income of every student that applies for free lunch. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly opposes the proposal.