Chance to question superintendent candidates Thursday

Dr. Mark Bedell and Dr. Ronald Taylor, candidates for superintendent of the Kansas City School Board. Two finalists for the job of superintendent of the Kansas City Public School District will meet the public tomorrow. The school board will ...

Large gifts helps UMKC toward downtown arts center goal

File photo. UMKC is closing in on its goal of raising $48 million for a downtown arts campus. That news comes as the university announced a recent gift of $1.5 million from the David Beals Charitable Trust and two other recent $1 million gifts ...

Public invited to KCPS master plan presentation

Kansas City Public School officials are ready to unveil recommendations that could include school consolidations, boundary changes and even closings. Kansas City Public Schools (KCPS) has been working on a master plan “to maximize student ...

State board approves Midtown charter school opening in 2016

File photo. Citizens of the World now has the final green light to open two elementary schools in Midtown in the fall of 2016. The Missouri State Board of Education gave approval to the Citizens of the World charter yesterday. The Missouri Charter ...

UMKC assistant coach resigns, calls scandal allegations false

Amid a sex scandal, UMKC assistant basketball coach Andre McGee has resigned. McGee has been on administrative leave at UMKC since Oct. 2. Before coming to Kansas City, McGee was a player and director of basketball operations at the University ...

Elementary School Fair lets parents talk to parents

Parents trying to figure out where to send their children to kindergarten in 2016 can get details about various options on Thursday, Nov. 5. Show Me KC Schools and the KC Chamber are co-hosting a “Parent to Parent Elementary School Fair.” ...

UMKC to study dental care for Kansas kids

UMKC professors Pat Kelly of the School of Nursing and Health Studies and Melanie Simmer-Beck of the School of Dentistry are co-investigators on a National Institutes of Health grant, potentially totaling $4.38 million, to study dental hygienist ...

Summit today addresses students moving from school district to school district

Mayor Sly James says the city needs to get a better handle on the impact of students who move around from school to school. Mayor Sly James’ office is helping to convene a day-long summit today to address the problem, which experts say interrupts ...

Need some help understanding test scores for your child’s school?

While school districts are still studying 2015 MAP test scores released this week, parents can get some help in interpreting the results at two upcoming public meetings. The state released 2015 MAP test scores yesterday, with the report for ...

School district sees improvement, need to improve in test scores

The Kansas City School District says students have improved in their English language skills, but did not make as much progress as the district had hoped to make in math. The comments came today with the release of 2015 Missouri Assessment Program ...