Education, Kansas
Kansas City-area school district must pay $400K to family in special education dispute(The Sentinel) — A federal court in Kansas ordered the Shawnee Mission School District (SMSD) to pay a Westwood family $400,000 for legal fees following three years’ litigation over… Read More
Public Education
Ethics Commission: No conflict of interest if school board member also works for teachers’ union(The Sentinel) – Shawnee Heights School Board Member Lauren Tice Miller’s additional responsibility as Director of Legislative and Political Advocacy for the Kansas Chapter of the National Education Association… Read More
Public Education
Kansas school districts lawyer up after one district closes academic center, sending more than 100 students to other schools(The Sentinel) – The Wetmore Academic Center (WAC) buildings are vacant as its former students prepare to return to classes elsewhere this fall, but there is plenty of activity in… Read More
Kansas
‘Totally unreasonable’: Police raid on Marion County newspaper raises First and Fourth Amendment concerns(The Sentinel) — The Aug. 11 raid on the newsroom of the Marion County Record and its publisher’s home and confiscation of computers, cell phones and other equipment is… Read More
Education, Kansas
Recall of Leavenworth school board member Vanessa Reid fails(The Sentinel) — Supporters of a campaign to oust USD 453 board member Vanessa Reid failed to gather the required number of signatures on a petition to place a recall… Read More