Acollege journalist and the Student Press Law Center have settled their lawsuitwith Johnson County Community College stemming from the school’s $24,000 pricetag for documents under an open records request.
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School district won't make Kan. student apologize for Tweet against governor
Dealing with hundreds of new emails each hour was not exactly how Emma Sullivan expected to spend her holiday weekend.
Kan. school district abandons proposal to ban yearbook, newspaper dedications
In thewake of uproar from free speech advocates last month, an Eastern Kansas schooldistrict has stricken the parts of a policy proposal that would have prohibitedyearbook and newspaper dedications to deceased students.
SPLC, student journalist sue Kan. community college over public records fees
TheStudent Press Law Center and a college journalist filed a lawsuit Tuesday againstJohnson County Community College in Kansas for excessive fees to release openrecords, including nearly $10,000 to produce one day’s worth of emails.
Kan. district's proposal would prohibit yearbook, newspaper dedications
An Eastern Kansas school board is considering a policy that wouldeliminate on-campus memorials for deceased students and prevent studentnewspapers and yearbooks from dedicating editions or pages to them.
After compromise, Kansas to continue funding journalism classes
High school journalism courses in Kansas willcontinue to qualify for state funding after journalism teachers and stateofficials reached a compromise on new funding guidelines.
UPDATED: Sex issue at private Kan. university goes missing
Jurski said in an email that OU administration and Campus staff met last week and are putting together a task force to form a new student media board policy.
UPDATED: LGBT groups demand retraction of Kan. student's homosexuality editorial
After Wichita High School East administrators released a statement Wednesday, the organizations decided to cancel a planned press conference regarding “hate speech” in the student newspaper. Jackie Carter, pastor of First Metropolitan Community Church, one of the groups involved in the press conference, confirmed the cancellation. She said all groups involved “wanted to give the school adequate and appropriate time to follow through on those responses.”
Kansas ready to pull state funding for high school journalism
The fate of some Kansas high school journalismprograms is in doubt after the state's department of education set up newfunding guidelines.
New Kansas shield law could protect student journalists
Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson signed the Kansas House Bill2585 into law April 15, establishing a shield law that appears to affordprotection to both professional and student journalists.