Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Education has sent letters to Kansas. State officials secretly discussed how to respond.

Kansas State Board of Education chair Cathy Hopkins, center, shares the opinion of some of her peers about the need to streamline state board mandates so local school boards and districts can best ...

The Kansas State Board of Education ... their children," U.S. education secretary Linda McMahon said of a March 28 letter sent to states. "Yet many states and school districts have enacted ...

Scott Gordon, the KSDE general counsel, told the Kansas State Board of Education on April 8 that ... Derek Schmidt, R-Kansas, whose district includes Topeka. "Unlike other states that used federal ...

The Kansas State Board of Education ... State law requires every school district levy a 20-mill tax on property in their district to help finance public education. This money didn’t stay in ...

TOPEKA — The Republican-controlled Kansas ... schools. State law requires every school district levy a 20-mill tax on property in their district to help finance public education.

State education officials nationwide say the U.S. Department of Education is blocking access to tens of millions of dollars meant for K-12 schools—an issue exacerbated by the Trump ...

It mandates school districts show a video of a developing ... The bill also allows Kansas State Board of Education members to set their own salaries. An earlier version of the bill set state ...

Cathy Hopkins, who serves as chair of the state Board of Education and represents a district covering much of western Kansas, said the board was guilty of piling burdensome responsibilities on ...