Posted: 3:34 PM Public school officials are fighting a perception that they fared well in Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' budget.

Updated: 2:51 PM Deferred maintenance backlog grows to $825 million.

Updated: 10:22 AM Ms. Lori Peister, 51, principal of Kenneth Henderson Middle School, died Tuesday as a result of cancer.

Updated: 10:56 AM Police in the Kansas college towns of Lawrence and Manhattan are investigating a series of rapes of college students.

Posted: 8:48 AM Even in the middle of the school year, parents are pulling their kids out of private schools as family budgets get hammered by the ever-deepening recession.

Updated: 3:07 PM First finalist will be in Manhattan next week.

Updated: 10:56 AM KU makes the "Princeton Review" list.

Updated: 10:49 AM The Maize USD 266 Board of Education has announced that they have selected three candidates to interview for their superintendent vacancy.

Updated: 6:05 PM Because of the construction work at Hamilton Middle School, many of the classrooms had to be moved to Longfellow School.

Updated: 10:09 AM A Wichita legislator wants to make financial literacy a requirement for high school graduation in Kansas.

Updated: 4:04 PM Tuesday, the Kansas Board of Regents appointed Mr. Drue Jennings of Prairie Village to chair the committee responsible for conducting the search for the 17th Chancellor of the University of Kansas.

Posted: 8:13 AM Three college endowments in Kansas have lost tens of millions of dollars because of the stock market's plunge, and it could cause a drop in the number of student scholarships.

Updated: 12:48 PM Work on Hamilton Middle School will take longer than expected.

Updated: 2:07 PM Lawrence firefighters responding to an alarm at the Delta Gamma sorority house on the KU campus this morning found a broken sprinkler head on the third floor

Updated: 11:48 AM Goddard School District has been selected to receive a school health grant as part of the Kansas Coordinated School Health Program.

Posted: 6:34 PM A Wichita Collegiate teacher is honored for her impact on the lives of her students.

Updated: 9:28 AM Gov. Kathleen Sebelius wants to exclude public schools from cuts that must be made in the current state budget to erase a $141 million deficit.

Posted: 6:09 PM Wichita Trinity Senior Timothy Wiesner wins state's largest business scholarship.

Posted: 4:45 PM The City of Wichita’s Community Education Northeast team will be handing out “What Your Child Should Know by Kindergarten” bags from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec.16 through Friday, Dec. 19 at the Atwater Neighborhood City Hall, 2755 E 19th.

Updated: 7:07 AM Danny Jones a finalist for the award.

Posted: 6:45 AM A Haysville Elementary teacher is in trouble after taping a student to his chair. It happened at Ruth Clark Elementary Friday.

Updated: 7:00 AM After 17-year-old Alexsandra Morales collapsed and died at Wichita West High in April, her school honors her by retiring her basketball jersey.

Posted: 10:05 AM Directors of after-school programs around the country are bracing for the worst in the face of budget cuts and closures. It's just one more way the recession is having an impact on people.

Posted: 3:40 PM The scholarships, awarded yearly at WSU, recognize leadership and academic skills and are the largest undergraduate scholarships in Kansas.

Posted: 11:09 AM The Academic Excellence Challenge Team at Colby Community College is off to a great start in the pursuit of their fourth state championship title.