In Kansas News
The Wichita school board has extended its contract with Superintendent Kelly Bielefeld (BEE-luh-feld) through 2028.
The new contract brings Bielefeld's total compensation to about $385,000 a year. That puts him among the highest-paid superintendents in the state.
Wichita school board president Diane Albert says a new bonus was added to encourage Bielefeld to stay in Wichita.
“We want to see Kelly be the superintendent of USD 259 for the foreseeable future, and so we also want to reward that through a longevity bonus as well.”
The new contract boosts the amount the district contributes to the superintendent's retirement. It also says that the concept for a new K-6 microschool in Wichita is Bielefeld's intellectual property.
Bielefeld is starting his third year as superintendent of the state's largest district.
Advocates for families say parents of thousands of Kansas children will soon miss out on a federal child tax credit.
As Dylan Lysen of the Kansas News Service reports, the Trump administration’s Big Beautiful Bill blocks immigrant families from the tax refund.
"Federal Republican lawmakers boosted the child tax credit for a maximum total refund of $2,200.
The change mostly benefits higher income families who can earn the total credit. But it also removes some immigrant families from eligibility.
Nathan Kessler of Kansas Action for Children says that means immigrant parents of 25,000 Kansas children, even if the children are U.S. citizens, are no longer eligible.
“This bill is extremely costly and the benefits are heavily skewed toward the top.”
Kansas Action for Children says more than 170,000 of the state’s children are already ineligible because their parents do not earn enough money.
For the Kansas News Service, I’m Dylan Lysen in Overland Park."
And in Missouri News
President Donald Trump is slated to nominate a St. Louis County judge and a former prosecutor as the U.S. Attorneys for Missouri. St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum has more on the GOP chief executive’s selections.
"According to sources familiar with the process, Trump plans to nominate St. Louis County Circuit Judge Thomas Albus to be the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. And he’s also slated to select R. Matthew Price to serve as U.S. Attorney for Missouri’s Western District.
Albus previously worked for the Missouri attorney general’s office and as an assistant U.S. attorney. Price served as an assistant prosecutor for Jefferson County and an assistant U.S. Attorney.
There's no timeline for when Albus and Price will get nominated, but Trump is expected to announce the move soon.
It will be up to the U.S. Senate to vote on Price and Albus’ nominations. I’m Jason Rosenbaum, STLPR."