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Category: Education

Citizens of the World, a Kansas City charter school, is pictured July 10, 2021.
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What you need to know about charter schools in Kansas City

Avatar photo by Maria Benevento July 12, 2021August 7, 2022
The Student Union building at the University of Missouri Kansas-City
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Missouri universities will no longer have tuition caps when bill becomes law

Avatar photo by Maria Benevento July 9, 2021August 7, 2022
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Two KCK schools shift focus from punishment to make classrooms safer, reduce suspensions

Avatar photo by Maria Benevento July 2, 2021August 7, 2022
Students, faculty and activists gathered at Metropolitan Community College - Penn Valley to demand a new proposed policy be changed to ensure protection for students and the LGBTQ+ community.
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Why MCC students and employees are concerned about its relationship policy

Avatar photo by Maria Benevento June 30, 2021August 7, 2022
Fifteen-year-old Lyra Thompson types on her laptop at Alphapointe's annual technology camp.
Posted inEducation

Why this KC tech camp draws kids with visual impairments from all over the country

by Sophia Belshe June 25, 2021August 7, 2022
University of Missouri Professor Dawn Heston teaches her Spanish class on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020 in the Arts and Science building on MU's campus.
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Missouri and Kansas colleges grapple with the politics of COVID vaccine requirements

Barbara Shelly by Barbara Shelly May 12, 2021August 7, 2022
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Tax breaks for developers cost every KCPS student $1,925 in 2019

Avatar photo by Celisa Calacal April 26, 2021August 7, 2022
University of Kansas professor Gregory Cushman appears at a rally dressed as a plague doctor, a prop he sometimes uses in class. He thinks he contracted COVID-19 while teaching at KU.
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College campuses in Kansas and Missouri are reopening, but many professors and staff can’t get a COVID-19 vaccine

Barbara Shelly by Barbara Shelly March 3, 2021August 7, 2022
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After a pandemic enrollment drop, Missouri educators are trying to find ‘missing’ students

by Jamie Hobbs February 15, 2021August 7, 2022
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How universities in Kansas and Missouri were impacted by enrollment and budget shortfalls

Roxie Hammill by Roxie Hammill December 21, 2020August 7, 2022

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