Liberty Middle School fifth grader Maxwell Logan won the Pratt County Spelling Bee on Jan. 30. LMS eighth grader David Schotte was the runner up.
Displays of art and athletic achievements will soon have new homes on the campus of Pratt Community College.
A long-term battle with the Kansas Board of Regents to get Pratt Community College and two other Kansas community colleges equal funding for technical programs has ended with a win but no payoff for PCC.
In 22 years as a tennis coach at Pratt High School, Mike Harvey’s players had considerable success. On Saturday, it was the coach in the spotlight when he was inducted into the Kansas Tennis Coaches Hall of Fame at a ceremony at Crestview Country Club in Wichita.
There are many kinds of friendships in the world. There are the good friends, the best friends and the friends you could consider family.
Suzan Patton’s first teaching job was in the district she will lead after this school year. The USD 382 Board of Education approved her as superintendent beginning July 1, replacing Glen Davis, who has chosen to retire. A search for a new assistant superintendent, to fill the position Patton is leaving, will begin in the near future.
Glen Davis is an organized man who develops and follows a plan, a characteristic that has served him well as superintendent for the past seven years at USD 382. Now, the plan calls for retirement, or at least partial retirement. He made that request to the Board of Education Monday night, and was granted unanimous approval.
The USD 382 Board of Education voted unanimously Monday night to release Superintendent Glen Davis from the second year of his contract and then immediately filled the open position by hiring Assistant Superintendent Suzan Patton on another almost-unanimous vote.
If Gov. Sam Brownback’s education plan is approved by the Kansas Legislature, Skyline USD 438 may realize a windfall of $216,000 in increased funding.
For the second time in less than a year, South Central Kansas Special Education Cooperative board members are looking for a new director.
Becca Flowers, the Skyline School counselor, is taking on additional duties for the district. Flowers will be the new K-6 principal starting Jan. 3.
The Pratt USD 382 Board of Education took a preliminary look at the advantages of artificial turf for Zerger Field Monday night.
Skyline grade school students took a unique trip through the human body and learned proper nutrition for their bodies during the Body Venture event.
Pratt gained more than 500 residents from 2009 to 2010, according to the latest United States Census count, as reported in the Kansas 2010 Annual Summary of Vital Statistics, compiled by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Now showing in the Delmar Riney Art Gallery at Pratt Community College is the work of art faculty members Marsha Shrack and Jennifer Barten.
A Pratt teacher has received an award from a professional organization, but it is her students who win.
Students at Pratt Community College will face increases in tuition, fees and residence hall costs when they come to campus for the 2012-2013 college year.
Rotary club came to Skyline to promote a project called Painting Across America.
The familiar image of the Fighting Frog — USD 382’s mascot of at least a half-century — will soon be a legally protected trademark, the Board of Education learned Monday night.
The Sept. 20 official count numbers are in and the total Skyline enrollment is up from the 2010-2011 numbers.
