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Members of the Kansas State Board of Education will hear several presentations during their monthly meeting, Oct. 14-15, in Topeka, including a draft summary of the Kansas State Department of Education’s 2024-25 annual report, "Coherence."
Kansas Education Commissioner Dr. Randy Watson will provide the highlights for the time period covering Oct. 1, 2024, to Sept. 30, 2025.
Understanding how your child performed on the state assessments and how their scores relate to their academic success is the focus of the next KSDE Insight Podcast titled, “Taking the Test: What parents should know about their child’s state assessment scores,” available Oct. 16.
To support the Four Fundamentals of school improvement, the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) is collecting data about the instructional materials used in Kansas schools.
The KSDE accreditation and design team has recently updated the 25-26 KESA Compliance Guide and wanted to make districts and systems aware of that, along with the updated sections (listed below). The revised guide is now re-posted to the Accreditation webpage in the Compliance section.
Draft revised educator preparation standards for Technology and Engineering 6-12, and Visually Impaired Birth-Grade 3 and PreK-12 are now available for public comment until Nov. 6.
A website to help Kansas students with disabilities transition from their K-12 schooling to their post high school graduation plans is now available.
The KSDE Special Education and Title Services (SETS) team has several October updates pertaining to the Local Consolidated Plan (LCP) application, a meeting of the district foster care points of contact and the monthly ESEA webinar.
By Lisa Williams, KSDE early childhood team
The Kansas Home Visitors Conference did things a bit differently this year - and it paid off!
The deadline is tomorrow, Friday, Oct. 10, to nominate first-year teachers for the Kansas Horizon Award and nominate students for presidential scholars, presidential scholars in career and technical education (CTE) and the United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP).
Training videos are now posted on the KSDE Title I Schoolwide and Targeted Assistance Schools website.
The Kansas State Department of Education does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities. (more information...)
To accommodate people with disabilities, on request, auxiliary aides and services will be provided and reasonable modifications to policies and programs will be made. To request accommodations or for more information please contact the Office of General Counsel at gc@ksde.gov or by 785-296-3201.