The district said it’s necessary to make classrooms bigger as schools transition away from lecture-style teaching.

The 70-year-old building is too high-maintenance and not flexible enough for students’ learning, the principal says.

Like many schools in the Wichita school district, Irving Elementary School is a time capsule of a past era. Built in 1941, many of the school’s features are now dated, especially as technology ...

The older part of the building has two floors. The second floor houses most fifth grade classrooms, and the only way to get to that floor is by taking the stairs. But one teacher uses a scooter, so ...

"Our community is uniting as one Wichita, one Kansas and one American community," Mayor Lily Wu said as people gathered to pray and console each other ...