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Gardner Edgerton students received a welcome reprieve before Spring Break started. Students learned two additional days of school won’t be tacked onto the school year to make up for snow days.
The district has sufficient hours required by the state …
Danedri Thompson
dthompson@gardnernews.com
The Director of Operations for the Gardner Edgerton School District has tendered his resignation. Bill Miller will serve out the remainder of his contract, which expires in July.
“This position is a high stress job,” Miller said. …
Amy Cunningham
acunningham@gardnernews.com
The gloves are coming off as school districts, parents and legislators prepare to duke it out in court over Kansas’ school funding formula. At odds are two lawsuits, each challenging the way the state funds education.
In …
Danedri Thompson
dthompson@gardnernews.com
If school officials are successful in purchasing land at Waverly Pointe, they won’t have the means to build more practice fields and a parking lot near the high school until they pass a bond issue.
According to …
Danedri Thompson
dthompson@gardnernews.com
Although the Gardner Edgerton School District has expressed interest in purchasing more than 21 acres in the Waverly Pointe subdivision near the high school, that doesn’t mean a plan for lower-income housing in the same location will …
Danedri Thompson
dthompson@gardnernews.com
Attorneys for Schools for Fair Funding (SFFF), a lobbying group that successfully sued for additional school funding in 2006, has filed a new lawsuit against the state. The group, which includes Gardner Edgerton USD 231, alleges that …
Danedri Thompson
dthompson@gardnernews.com
School and public safety officials will review their procedures in response to a traffic accident outside of Madison Elementary that resulted in the death of a second grade student last week, but their immediate focus is on …
Kansas did the right thing in declining to apply for a second round of Race to the Top funding. The $4.35 million in funding – part of the American Recovery and Restoration Act more commonly known as stimulus – is …
Danedri Thompson
dthompson@gardnernews.com
Although Kansas will soon receive approximately $92 million in stimulus funds for education spending courtesy of recently passed federal legislation,
Eric Hansen, Gardner Edgerton Business Director, doesn’t believe that will translate into buckets of extra money for …
Danedri Thompson
dthompson@gardnernews.com
Gardner Edgerton school board members approved a $29 million budget with a 1 mill tax rate increase at its meeting Monday night. The increase will cost the owner of a $155,000 home approximately $19 more next year.…
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