With students across Kansas heading back to school this week and next, the Kansas Department of Education and the Kansas Highway Patrol partnered to promote safety.
Kansas students head back to school next month, and most retailers are offering deals to make sure children have what they need when they walk into the classroom
With COVID-19 cases rising in Sedgwick County, we checked with Wichita Public Schools to see what plans the district has in place to keep students and staff safe.
The school board said with the growing number of ill and quarantined students, the board will look at possible solutions for the loss of in-school learning time.
Kansas State University and Garden City Community College are two more Kansas higher education institutions offering incentives to their students to get vaccinated.
Some parents and community members showed at the Salina School Board meeting Tuesday night hoping members would vote to change a mask requirement for the district.
With most students in Kansas slated to start school this week, many of their school boards are deciding whether masks should be required or optional and who the rules should apply to.
A pediatric pulmonologist with Ascension Via Christi’s cystic fibrosis clinic says the CF community has proven that masks are a safe, effective way to spread the transmission of germs. She encourages students to choose to wear a mask this school year.
The most populous county in Kansas has imposed a mask mandate for students and staff in elementary schools in hopes of checking the more contagious COVID-19 delta variant.
Wichita Public Schools says it will “strongly encourages all students and staff to wear a face mask while inside WPS schools, regardless of vaccination status” for the 2021-22 school year.
The Hutchinson Public School Districts announced it will require all students, staff, and visitors to wear a mask indoors for the upcoming 2021-22 school year.