Delia News

State education officials have told school districts to expect about a $150 reduction in the current base state aid per pupil.

Many Kansans are about to start taking the state budget crisis personally. I'm talking here about the families of children enrolled in the state's 293 public school districts.

Residents of the Pottawatomie County community of Emmett will get to weigh in on the proposed closing of their town's grade school at a special hearing next month.

Emmett Grade School head teacher David Steele and parent Amy VandeVelde talk Wednesday about the ramifications of closing Emmett Grade School in Pottawatomie County.

Last time I wrote about Pericles, but I'm not yet finished with him. There are more lessons to be learned from the "Golden Age" of Athens.

It's hard to say that Atlantic Yards played much of a role in the outcomes of yesterday's primary elections, since in many races, such as Brooklyn's 33rd and 39th District City Council primaries, all the candidates professed at least some degree of opposition to the project.

Letitia James greeted supporters at her victory party at a bar in Bed-Stuy. Update 11:49 p.m. City Councilwoman Letitia James coasted to victory over Delia Hunley-Adossa and Medhanie Estiphanos in the Democratic primary tonight, drawing more than 80 percent of the vote and virtually guaranteeing that she will be elected to a third term in the ...

Delians have waited a long time for any filmic coverage of their hero -- not since Ken Russell's epic A Song of Summer in 1968 has this, let's be frank, presently unfashionable composer been accorded a cinematic evaluation.

This watchdog blog offers analysis, commentary, and reportage about Forest City Ratner's planned $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards project, the largest ever in Brooklyn, to build a basketball arena plus at least 16 high-rise buildings.

Harvey Williams, 88, of Topeka, talks about his days with the railroad. He is holding a time log and an oil can he used when he worked on the railroad.

The Kansas Department of Transportation says beacons are to be installed by this fall at the site of a fatal accident west of Mayetta.

The Kansas Department of Transportation says beacons are to be installed by this fall at the site of a fatal accident west of Mayetta.

The Kansas Department of Transportation says beacons are to be installed by this fall at the site of a fatal accident west of Mayetta.

Elizabeth Belair is driving her recently purchased car and talking to her cousin Erick Goslin in the passenger seat as they head toward Mayetta on Wednesday with her mother and a friend.

Three people have died after a semi-truck and car collided in Jackson Co., according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.

Financial desperation drove the Kaw Valley Unified School District 321 Board of Education on Monday night to approve a resolution to close the Delia Charter School.

Delia Charter School students cleaned out their lockers and prepared for the start of summer Friday.

Pottawatomie County Attorney Sherri Schuck said Thursday she has no reason to believe the Kaw Valley school board violated the Kansas Open Meetings Act when it discussed the possible closing of Delia Charter School.

During the campaign for the 2003 school board election, we and several other Unified School District 321 patrons tried to convince the voters to combine our two high schools into one.

The Topeka Capital-Journal this morning called on the Pottawatomie County Attorney to investigate possible violations of the Kansas Open Meetings Act by the Kaw Valley Unified School District board this week as it has discussed the closing of charter schools in Delia and Emmett.