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Communications & Recognition
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Press Releases

Two area teachers named finalists for Kansas Teacher of the Year

TOPEKA—Sept. 17, 2011—Carla Goertzen, a fourth-grade teacher at Buhler Grade School (Buhler USD 313), and Amelia S. Adams, a seventh- and eighth-grade Spanish and teen leadership teacher at West Middle School in Liberal (Liberal USD 480), were named Region 1 finalists for the 2012 Kansas Teacher of the Year award today.

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State SAT scores moderate as participation rate incre

TOPEKA – After a significant plunge last year, the number of Kansas public school graduates participating on the SAT college entrance exam was back up in 2011, according to information released today by The College Board. View Article

September State Board of Education Meeting

What: September State Board of Education Meeting
When: September 13, 2011, beginning at 10:00 a.m.
Where: Board Room, Kansas State Department of Education, 120 SE 10th Ave., Topeka, KS View Article

Computer Based Kansas Assessments

Since Kansas began No Child Left Behind testing in 2006 through Kansas Computerized Assessments, the number of students moving from paper-and-pencil to computer-based testing has steadily increased. View Article

KU Develops Writing Tool to Help Kansas Students

KU develops writing tool to help Kansas students, teachers in virtual environment View Article

Kansas ACT scores hold steady

TOPEKA – The biggest change experienced by Kansas on the 2011 ACT college entrance exam was the number of students participating in the test. View Article

Highlights of the August State Board of Education Meeting

TOPEKA – State Board of Education members learned during their monthly meeting Aug. 9-10 in Topeka that more Kansas schools met the federal adequate yearly progress (AYP) requirement in the 2010-11 testing cycle than did the previous year. View Article

Number of Kansas schools and districts on improvement increases

TOPEKA – Thirty-four Title I school districts and 46 Title I schools in Kansas were identified as “on improvement” for the 2011-2012 school year during the Kansas State Board of Education meeting in Topeka today. View Article

More Kansas schools meet AYP than in previous year

TOPEKA – Despite an increase in performance targets of as much as 8 percent, more Kansas public schools met adequate yearly progress (AYP) requirements in the 2010-11 testing cycle than in the previous year. View Article

Coaches’ Mentoring Challenge Expands to Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa

TOPEKA - For the past three years Kansas State University’s head football coach, Bill Snyder, and Nebraska’s former head football coach, Tom Osborne, have engaged in a friendly wager to see which state, Kansas or Nebraska, could recruit the most new mentors during the football season. View Article

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