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Kansas in Great Position With 2025 Five-Star PG Darius Acuff
Class of 2025, five-star point guard Darius Acuff cut down his list to three schools, including Kansas, Arkansas, and Michigan, per Joe Tipton. The reigning back-to-back National Champion UCONN made Acuff’s final four programs, but Tipton reports that the Huskies are no longer in the race. Acuff, a Michigan...
Enrollment begins for USD 253 Emporia
Enrollment has officially started for USD 253 Emporia students. With the process underway through Aug. 1, the district has made a number of adjustments to its PowerSchool Parent Portal, including a new Contacts section designed to track and connect caregiver information to students as well as a new Forms section that lets parents check to see which which forms have been filled out or which forms are needed for their students’ specific situations. It’s all part of an effort to streamline, simplify and speed up the enrollment process, according to Director of Community Relations Lyndel Landgren on KVOE’s monthly Showcase with USD 253 Superintendent Allison Anderson-Harder.
Cold case cracked: Charges filed in 2017 murder of KCK 15-year-old
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Nearly 7 years after the murder of a 15-year-old working at a Kansas City, Kansas, laundromat, charges have been filed in the death of Harmon High School sophomore December Htoo. Htoo, remembered as a bright and talented student, singer, son, brother and athlete, was closing...
Darting trains international basketball players at Shawnee Heights
TECUMSEH, KS. (KSNT) – School isn’t in session, and basketball season hasn’t quite arrived, but the gym at Shawnee Heights High School is far from quiet. Kerry Darting, who’s father is high school coaching legend Ken Darting, is accustomed to training elite basketball talent through his Darting Basketball Academy. This summer, though, he’s doing something […]
KU’s Cranton, Shojinaga embrace remarkable stories which led to selections in MLB draft
LAWRENCE (KSNT) – KU baseball did not have a single player selected in the MLB draft from 2020-2023. In the 2024 rounds, six Jayhawks were picked. The first two selected, Hunter Cranton and Kodey Shojinaga, both share incredible stories of growth in Lawrence. Cranton was the first KU product off the board, going in round […]
Arkansas man dies in SE Kansas crash
COFFEYVILLE (KSNT) – A man from Arkansas died Thursday morning in a southeast Kansas crash. At 1:49 a.m., Zachary L. Evans from New Blaine, AR was driving east on Woodland Avenue in Coffeyville. The 24-year-old was approaching North Buckey Street. He failed to go around a curve in the road and went into the north-side […]
Education commissioner optimistic about state's future
“73% of Kansas students need more than a high school diploma,” Dr. Randy Watson, Kansas Education Commissioner, told the July luncheon meeting of the Hutchinson/Reno County Chamber of Commerce during a noon speech Wednesday at the Hutchinson Community College. The July chamber luncheon, an annual event to honor the...
Kansas schools reported over 11,000 emergency interventions last school year
Kansas State Board of Education member Jim Porter called for the reestablishment of a work group to find best practices for children experiencing acute behavioral episodes during school. Emergency safety intervention is the seclusion or restraint of a student when educators believe is an immediate threat of danger or harm to themselves or others. Data collected during the prior school year showed there were 11,765 incidents of seclusion in Kansas schools, and on average they last about...
Axe-throwing bar Blade & Timber closes in Leawood, reopens further south
A Leawood facility offering axe throwing, cocktails and more has moved further south. Blade & Timber has officially moved out of its Town Center Plaza location, opening a new space a couple of miles south on 135th Street last month. Blade & Timber is now at 4800 W. 135th St.
Missouri uses money, laws to push evidence-based reading instruction
If you drop into an elementary reading lesson, you might see kids learning about the long U sound, building their vocabulary or practicing how to read aloud without sounding like robots. And if you visit Kansas City Public Schools this fall, you should see all students in the same grade...
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