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Tweet Amanda Jessee’s fifth-grade students at Westwood View are now officially being taught by the best American History teacher in the state. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History named Jessee 2011’s Kansas History Teacher of the Year earlier this summer, a distinction that automatically made her eligible for the National History Teacher of the [...]
Tweet Three of the four candidates in the race for the at-large seat on the Shawnee Mission School Board will move on from the March 1 primary to the April 5 general election. But two of the four primary candidates must be eliminated. Such is the logic-problem conundrum posed by the wording of Kansas statute [...]
Tweet The Wichita Eagle earlier this week released its rankings of Kansas schools based on state assessment data, and local schools fare relatively well — though not as well as some of their counterparts in Blue Valley. SM East came in at number 40 out of the 375 Kansas high schools in the newspaper’s rankings, [...]
Tweet “Your word is ‘champion’” “Champion. Could you use it in sentence?” “Mission Valley seventh grader Anna Molteni is the champion of the Johnson County Spelling Bee.” Well — co-champion, technically. Molteni tied with Zach Winterman, a seventh grader at St. Michael the Archangel, in the county’s spelling bee last weekend, earning her a spot [...]
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