News Briefs
A conservative Republican seeking re-election to the Kansas board of education is defending now-repealed science standards that questioned the validity of evolution.
October 28, 2008
Gov. Sebelius has proposed a new early-childhood block grant, which would focus on early education for “at-risk children and underserved areas.”
January 22, 2008
Kenneth Willard, a member of the Kansas state school board, has been chosen as president-elect of the National Association of State Boards of Education.
July 17, 2007
A 8.3 percent budget increase represents the second phase in a three-year, $466 million plan.
May 15, 2007
The recently reconstituted Kansas state board of education voted Jan. 9 to revise its science standards when it meets next month, with a majority of members moving to reverse past policy and strengthen the teaching of evolution.
January 17, 2007
Eight months after the Kansas legislature passed a three-year, $466 million K-12 education spending plan, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius praised lawmakers in her Jan. 10 State of the State address for their efforts, and urged them to fulfill their promise.
January 17, 2007
The Kansas Supreme Court surprised people on both sides of the state’s 7-year-old school finance case late last month when it ruled that the state had complied with the court’s order to increase funding and dismissed the case, but declined to say whether the new spending plan is constitutional.
August 8, 2006
The turnout for last week’s primary elections for the Kansas state board of education may have been low, but the impact of the results on policies concerning evolution, sex education, and other hot-button school issues could be anything but.
August 8, 2006
Two moderates and two conservatives won in the four Republican primary elections for the Kansas state board of education yesterday, ousting one incumbent and signaling a likely shift of control in the board that has been led by conservative Republicans for the past two years.
August 2, 2006
The fractured nature of the Kansas Republican Party is on display in the primary campaigns for the state school board, in which Republicans of all stripes are scrambling to woo voters before they choose their candidates Aug. 1.
July 21, 2006
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas signed a record-high K-12 education budget of nearly $2.9 billion last month, calling the $466 million increase in state aid over the next three years a “historic commitment to our children’s schools.”
June 13, 2006
Facing court deadlines to fix the way they finance their public schools, lawmakers in Kansas and Texas have been wrangling over possible solutions.
May 9, 2006
Protracted battles over evolution, sex education, and school financing in Kansas have generated plenty of headlines in the Sunflower State over the past year.
Now, the state school board has stirred fresh controversy by its hiring of conservative policy advocate Bob L. Corkins as the state’s new commissioner of education.
December 13, 2005
The forces seeking to subject the theory of evolution to greater criticism tasted both victory and defeat last week. Kansas officials approved an overhaul of their state science standards to do just that, while voters in a rural Pennsylvania district ousted advocates of “intelligent design” from the school board the same day.
November 15, 2005
The Kansas state board of education on Nov. 8 overhauled its state science standards in a way that encourages more criticism of the theory of evolution, in a much-anticipated decision that appalled many of the nation’s leading scientific organizations.
November 9, 2005
