New power plants are likely unneeded. However, as the Sentinel previously reported, it is unclear if the new plants are needed for anything but for Evergy to “get competitive” on earnings growth.. The ...

Celebration of a stunning increase in a one-year graduation rate at Wichita Southeast High School came crashing down as reports surfaced of grade tampering leading to the five percentage point rise in ...

Interestingly, the City of Leawood‘s website says it has just City Administrator Diane Stoddard and Assistant City Administrator Stephen Powell for a larger city of about 33,000 people.. Large ...

Since 1997, property tax revenue for the City of Wichita jumped by 228%, which is more than double the combined increases in inflation and population. At the same time, Sedgwick County’s property tax ...

A May 7 th letter from the U. S. Department of Education to state school officials has dusted off a decades-long, but neglected regulation allowing students victimized in “persistently dangerous ...

New polling released today shows that residents of Prairie Village, Kansas —a small, land-locked community in the Kansas City, Kansas metro area—overwhelmingly want a chance to vote on a new $30 ...

A Cowley County couple and the Kansas Justice Institute won a major victory earlier this week after a federal court ruled in favor of Scott Johnson and Harlene Hoyt, striking down Kansas’s regime of a ...

A lack of private options is a common concern among rural Kansas legislators, but a new study suggests school choice will create new private school options. “The number of private schools in the U.S.

Documents received by The Sentinel as part of a Kansas Open Records Act request show that the Kansas State Department of Education is relying on Biden-era guidance in a non-discrimination statement, ...

KSDE refuses to say whether the new state assessment measures mastery and identifying grade-level performance.

Nearly half of the undergraduate teacher education programs in Kansas have earned an F grade in preparing future educators to instruct students in math.. Six of the 16 undergrad programs at Kansas ...

Most recently, the Kansas State High School Activities Association declined to answer questions about “sex at birth” on a required physical exam form for athletes.. The “Pre-Participation Physical ...