Kansas Paper Urges State To Rethink Ending Funding For Newspaper, Yearbook Classes

The Winfield (KS) Daily Courier (10/13) editorializes, "High school newspapers and yearbooks help prepare young people to work in the growing, increasingly complex field of communications." The Daily Courier adds, "These opportunities for hands-on training in communications are especially important for small school districts." The classification of high school newspaper and yearbook classes as CTE courses has changed at the state level, meaning districts could be responsible for as much as $700,000 for the programs in a few years. "High school newspaper classes offer students opportunities to publish on paper, online, by blogging and using social media - all steps that take them into the future of communications, where jobs are waiting," the Daily Courier argues. "The state department of education and the state board of education should rethink their decision to end funding for newspaper and yearbook classes as [CTE] training."