Elle Moxley
Elle covers education for KCUR. The best part of her job is talking to students. Before coming to KCUR in 2014, Elle covered Indiana education policy for NPR’s StateImpact project. Her work covering Indiana’s exit from the Common Core was nationally recognized with an Edward R. Murrow award. Her work at KCUR has been recognized by the Missouri Broadcasters Association and the Kansas City Press Club. She is a graduate of the University Of Missouri School Of Journalism. Elle regularly tweets photos of her dog, Kingsley. There is a wounded Dr. Ian Malcolm bobblehead on her desk.
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The rules are different for virtual school instruction outside a pandemic. That means students who choose online next year won't be Zooming into a class being taught at their neighborhood school. -
Kansas City area schools are making a final push to get families to fill out the 2020 census.The census is critically important to schools, but a third of… -
Delaying the start of school until Sept. 9 must be approved by the Kansas State Board of Education, which approved reopening guidelines on Wednesday. -
Kansas education officials have approved new guidelines for school during the pandemic, including the expectation that older students wear masks in class. -
Longer Days, Shorter Semesters: How COVID-19 Will Change Campus Life At Kansas And Missouri CollegesAmong other things, local colleges are planning to limit classroom capacity, put new restrictions on dorm life and end the fall semester early. -
In Shawnee Mission Schools, for instance, what is currently projected to be a $7 million surplus could end up being at least a $13 million deficit. -
States cut spending on early childhood education during the Great Recession in 2008. A new report warns it could happen again because of the pandemic. -
Update : 2:30 p.m. Monday Kansas’ single confirmed coronavirus patient has been admitted to the University of Kansas Health Systems hospital. The... -
Kansas and Missouri are at low risk for the coronavirus, but schools in the Kansas City metro are having “robust conversations” about how to protect... -
The lawsuits say schools have had to hire more staff, install special sensors and provide programs to help students cope with nicotine addiction.
