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Emerging blueprint spells out details of Kansas initiative to improve literacy instruction
Developers of the state’s new student literacy initiative are pushing ahead with plans to create university centers of excellence and a special credential tied to retraining teachers in a quest to have 90% of third- to eighth-grade students read at or above grade level.
Emerging blueprint spells out details of Kansas initiative to improve literacy instruction
Developers of the state’s new student literacy initiative are pushing ahead with plans to create university centers of excellence and a special credential tied to retraining teachers in a quest to have 90% of third- to eighth-grade students read at or above grade level.
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Kansas Senate Republicans strip majority leader of title in closed-door meeting
Senate Republicans ousted Gene Suellentrop from his majority leader title in a secret meeting Friday after he refused to resign over his late-night drunken escapade through Topeka.
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Kansas Senate bans transgender athletes from women’s sports, sends bill to governor
Supporters said the legislation is necessary to prevent discrimination against young women, who they said would not have a level playing field should transgender women be allowed to compete. Opponents said the bill harms and discriminates against transgender children.
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Effort to redirect money from public to private schools stumbles in Kansas Senate
The rare stumble capped a day in which Republicans passed or forged deals on legislation to ban transgender girls and women from school sports, allow teenagers to carry concealed guns, install NRA-backed school curriculum, and require students to pass a civics exam before they graduate.
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Kansas Senate majority leader had 0.17 blood alcohol level in wrong-way pursuit
Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop allegedly reeked of alcohol, struggled to speak or walk, and threatened the Kansas Highway Patrol officer who stopped him in the early hours of March 16 for driving the wrong way on Interstate 70 in Topeka.
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Kansas Senate welcomes teens to concealed-gun club, pulls trigger on NRA-backed school curriculum
The Kansas Senate approved a double-barrel package of bills Thursday expanding the right of people as young as 18 to carry concealed firearms and implementing a gun-safety curriculum sponsored by the NRA in K-12 pubic schools.
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Joint House, Senate panel revives effort to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports
TOPEKA — Kansas Republican legislators from the House and Senate agreed Thursday to insert a […]
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Kansas House, Senate come to terms on bill that reshapes K-12 education
Kansas senators and representatives reached an agreement Wednesday on a bill reshaping K-12 education primarily through several initiatives designed to give struggling students and families options beyond public schools.
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House and Senate negotiators begin wrangling over Kansas K-12 budget and policies
Kansas Republican legislators from the House and Senate remain largely divided on several proposed budget and policy elements of K-12 public education in the state.
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Senators forge bipartisan deal to aid Kansas businesses impacted by pandemic
A new Senate plan would redirect a portion of federal COVID-19 aid from the state and counties to small businesses impacted by public health orders during the pandemic.
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Kansas launches online version of driver’s license exam, to be available 24/7
The state of Kansas last week became the newest to offer online testing for its […]
