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Kathy Toelkes
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Press Releases

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

Highlights of the July State Board of Education Meeting

TOPEKA – State Board of Education members voted to recommend that the Legislature increase education funding by $604.8 million in fiscal year 2013 to fund all education programs currently in state statute at their statutory levels. View Article

Efforts in nutrition education garner White House invite for 24 Kansas schools

TOPEKA – Twenty-four Kansas schools are among those invited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to participate in a White House reception hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama July 29. Each of the schools invited received a HealthierUS School Challenge award during the 2010-11 school year.

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July State Board of Education Meeting

What: July State Board of Education Meeting
When: July 12–13, 2011, beginning at 10:00 a.m.
Where: Board Room, Kansas State Department of Education, 120 SE 10th Ave., Topeka, KS

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Highlights of the June 27, 2011 State Board of Education Special Meeting

TOPEKA – The Kansas State Board of Education voted to increase the teacher certification/licensure fee effective Sept. 1, 2011, at a special meeting June 27, 2011. View Article

Highlights of the June State Board of Education Meeting

TOPEKA – The statewide graduation rate using the new, federally mandated four-year adjusted cohort calculation was shared with State Board of Education members at their meeting June 14 and 15 in Topeka. Commissioner of Education Dr. Diane DeBacker explained that the state’s target graduation rate for 2009-2010 was 80 percent. Kansas met the target, posting a 4-year adjusted cohort graduation rate of 80.36 percent. View Article

June State Board of Education Meeting

What: June State Board of Education Meeting
When: June 14–15, 2011, beginning at 10:00 a.m.
Where: Boardroom, Kansas State Department of Education, 120 SE 10th Ave., Topeka, KS

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