Elle Moxley
Elle covers education for KCUR. The best part of her job is talking to students. Before coming to KCUR in 2014, Elle covered Indiana education policy for NPR’s StateImpact project. Her work covering Indiana’s exit from the Common Core was nationally recognized with an Edward R. Murrow award. Her work at KCUR has been recognized by the Missouri Broadcasters Association and the Kansas City Press Club. She is a graduate of the University Of Missouri School Of Journalism. Elle regularly tweets photos of her dog, Kingsley. There is a wounded Dr. Ian Malcolm bobblehead on her desk.
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It’s been a year since Gov. Laura Kelly closed every school in Kansas to slow the spread of coronavirus — and some educators have been teaching remotely ever since. -
Thousands of pro-Trump extremists have stormed the U.S. Capitol, forcing members of Congress to shelter in place. -
Delaying the start of school until Sept. 9 must be approved by the Kansas State Board of Education, which approved reopening guidelines on Wednesday. -
In Shawnee Mission Schools, for instance, what is currently projected to be a $7 million surplus could end up being at least a $13 million deficit. -
Update : 2:30 p.m. Monday Kansas’ single confirmed coronavirus patient has been admitted to the University of Kansas Health Systems hospital. The... -
A bitter contract dispute has driven a wedge between the Shawnee Mission teachers’ union and some of the school board members the union has helped get... -
States can get a substantial return on investment if they help single mothers in college access child care, support services and financial aid,... -
The lawsuits say schools have had to hire more staff, install special sensors and provide programs to help students cope with nicotine addiction. -
Updated at 7:00 a.m. Oct. 7 — Celeste Trevino was dancing with a "friend of a friend" early Sunday morning at Tequila KC. It was about a half-hour... -
For more than 100 years, Eudora had a weekly newspaper. “We were able to have a sports reporter, somebody that would come out when we had a structure...
