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Izzy Dieker asserts that all children should be able to ride the school bus safely. (Youtube/KSNT News)
Disciplinary action has been brought against two school employees after they punished a student and banned her from the school bus for saying “I’m a lesbian”.
Izzy Dieker, a 13-year old student in Kansas, was told to move to the front of the school bus and was subsequently banned from it by the two employees.
Dieker told
KSNT News: “At home, my dad told me that he got a call from the school that I was kicked off for saying that I was a lesbian.”
In a typical February, the small Wabaunsee school district just west of Topeka pays a natural gas utility bill of about $4,300. This year, its bill was more than $53,000.
It’s not because classrooms were cranking up the heat. Wabaunsee is just one of hundreds of school districts in Kansas hit by an unprecedented spike in wholesale natural gas prices during February’s record-setting winter storm. Now the state is stepping in with $20 million in loans to help.
“For a lot of districts you’re talking about their entire annual budget for natural gas being used really to pay for an eight-day period,” said Austin Harris, the director of member engagement at the Kansas Association of School Boards.
Snow falls on a school crossing sign in Kansas City on Oct. 26, 2020.
Heating bills for school districts spiked during the cold snap earlier this year, leaving some districts unable to pay.
In a typical February, the small Wabaunsee school district just west of Topeka pays a natural gas utility bill of about $4,300. This year its bill was more than $53,000.
It’s not because classrooms were cranking up the heat. Wabaunsee is just one of hundreds of school districts in Kansas hit by an unprecedented spike in wholesale natural gas prices during February’s record-setting winter storm. Now the state is stepping in with $20 million in loans to help.
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Wamego school board begins search for interim superintendent
The search for an interim superintendent at USD 320 Wamego Public Schools is underway.
School board members met Monday to review potential interview questions, as suggested by the Kansas Association of School Boards. Two candidates have submitted interest in the position, which is being vacated by current Superintendent Tim Winter at the end of July. Winter announced his resignation last week and was subsequently retained by the district as an eighth grade math teacher.
The board Monday interviewed Greg Mann, who retired as superintendent of USD 306 Southeast of Saline Schools in 2018.
A second candidate will interview for the position Tuesday, May 25. Board President Claudia McAlister says they are withholding his name until his interview next week.