Emporia
Where 86% of Students Are Hispanic: Inside Kansas's Meatpacking Corridor
In Liberal, 86 out of every 100 public school students are Hispanic. In Dodge City, 80. In Garden City, 67. These are not border towns. They sit in the southwest corner of Kansas, 300 miles from the n...
Kansas Lost 12,539 Students in Three Years
Kansas public schools gained 5,243 students across the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years, clawing back a third of the 16,114-student crater left by the pandemic. Two years felt like a turning point. It...