MORNING SUN CLIPS

“It’s time for someone else”: PSU President to retire at end of 2022 school year.

PITTSBURG, Kan. — On May 1, 2009, then Pittsburg State University Provost Dr. Steve Scott was waiting in a hotel room in Topeka for a call that would change his life.  

“I sat in a hotel room after visiting with the Board of Regents waiting for them to call me, to let me know if I was going to be the president,” Scott says. “I had a pair of blue jeans on and was ready to load the car and go home.”  

Then the phone rang he said, and before he knew it he was in a suit in downtown Topeka being introduced as Pittsburg State University’s newest president.

‘I don’t think we can wait until August 6’: Elementary age parents struggle to decide whether to send their children back to public school

With less than three weeks until the start of the school year, parents are anxiously waiting with bated breath for the USD 250 Board of Education and local health officials to make a decision about masking in classrooms for the upcoming school year.  

“As a parent, I am extremely frustrated that the school board and the health officials are continuing to postpone this decision until less than one week before school is scheduled to start,” said Heidi Casper, a local and mother of six.  

‘Running on fumes’: Systematic underfunding of special education in the state of Kansas has created a dangerous problem, experts say

The underfunding of education is not a new tale for the State of Kansas, but the funding, or rather underfunding of special education, has largely been ignored or swept under the rug, advocates say. So what is special education? How is the state supposed to fund it and how do they actually fund it?