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Supreme Court’s Landmark Brown v. Board Decision Marks 70th Anniversary

Published May 18, 2024 03:28AM

Supreme Court’s Landmark Brown v. Board Decision Marks 70th Anniversary

Seventy years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

Brown v. Board of Education centered on Linda Brown, a young Black student denied admission to her neighborhood elementary school in Topeka, Kansas, due to her race. The ruling overturned the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which had permitted state-sponsored segregation in public education under the concept of “separate but equal.”

The decision is considered a significant milestone ... Read more

Today In History: SCOTUS Rules On Brown v. Board Of Educatio

Portrait of nine-year-old African-American student Linda Brown as she poses outside Sumner Elementary School, Topkea, Kansas, 1953. When her enrollment in the racially segregated school was blocked, her family initia...

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KDOT announces approved April bids

The Kansas Department of Transportation announces approved bids for state highway construction and maintenance projects. The letting took place April 17, 2024, in Topeka. Some of the bids may include multiple projects that have been bundled based on ... Read more

The Day After Brown (U.S. National Park Service)

Monroe Elementary School auditorium ca. 1940s.

At 12 noon on Monday, May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (347 U.S. 483) the landmark decision that ended legal segregation of ... Read more

Kansas issues new Medicaid contracts with emphasis on expanding care, maternal needs

Published May 16, 2024 02:18PM

TOPEKA — Kansas health officials have selected three health care insurance companies to manage the state’s privatized Medicaid system after conducting the selection process for the first time in six years.

These managed care organizations will serve KanCare, the state’s system for the federal Medicaid program. In a Tuesday contract announcement, Kansas Department of Health and Environment officials said the determination process focused on the needs of the 458,000 Kansans enrolled for services.

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Brown v. Board is 70 years old. Why are so many schools hype

First Person is where Chalkbeat features personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others thinking and writing about public education.

I was 21 when I started teaching at Hope-Hill Elementary School in Atlanta. I had big dream ... Read more

How Brown v. Board of Education informed Topeka superintende

Rising at 2 a.m. daily, Topeka Public Schools superintendent Tiffany Anderson for the past year thought about how to encourage parents to be their child's first teacher through the legacy of the historic Brown v. Board of Education case.

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Brown vs. Board: Topeka’s first Black female superintenden

In 1950, the NAACP asked third-grader Linda Brown’s father to be one of a handful of plaintiffs in what would become Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

In 1954, the US Supreme Court ruled in the plaintiffs’ favor, ending ... Read more

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