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Missing school has become a crisis statewide. More than one in four Kansas students were chronically absent during the 2021-22 school year, which means they missed at least 10% of instruction time. That figure nearly doubled over the previous two years.
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Parents of Wichita elementary school students will get a copy of the book in advance of a district-wide lockdown drill next week.
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Voters in the Central Plains district near Great Bend voted no on a proposal to disband the district. Residents upset over the closing of Wilson High School had pushed for the plan.
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Melody McCray-Miller, a former teacher and Democratic state legislator, garnered 54% of the vote, according to unofficial results. Brent Davis, owner of a tutoring and test-prep business, received 24% of the vote.
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Voters in the Central Plains school district near Great Bend will decide Tuesday whether to dissolve the district. If the measure passes, the Kansas Board of Education would redraw boundaries and assign the district’s territory into neighboring districts.
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Political groups are holding workshops for school board members and starting local chapters to rally Kansas parents and recruit candidates.
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Five people are running for the at-large seat on the Wichita school board. An Aug. 1 primary will narrow the field to two.
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The tentative two-year contract would raise teacher pay by 4.85% the first year and 5% the second year.
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Textron Aviation in Wichita employs about 150 high school students and recent graduates for six weeks as part of an internship program that gives them an early look at career possibilities.
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Research shows that most children need systematic, sound-it-out instruction — commonly called phonics — rather than older approaches that focus on context clues from pictures and stories.