What is Education in Kansas?
'''Education in Kansas''' is controlled at the primary and [[secondary school]] level by the [[Kansas State Board of Education]]. Kansas's public colleges and [[University|universities]] are controlled by the [[Kansas Board of Regents]]. == Colleges and universities == The [[Kansas Board of Regents]] controls thirty-seven public schools. It also allows some private and out-of-state schools to be in Kansas. In Fall 2009, the Kansas's six public universities said they had a total of 93,307 students enrolled.<ref name=FallEnrollment>{{cite web | title = Regents Announce 2009 Enrollment | url = http://www.kansasregents.org/download/career/CTE%20Web%20Page/CA1,%20Sherry%20Farris%20and%20Janelle%20Holt/092409%20-%20Press%20Release%20-%20Fall%20Enrollment.pdf | format = English | access-date = 2010-02-15 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ===History=== [[File:KSAC 1904 engineering class.jpg|thumb|Mechanical engineering students at Kansas State in 1904]] The first colleges in Kansas were created by the Kansas Territorial legislature. They were signed by Territorial Governor [[James W. Denver]], on February 9–12, 1858.<ref name=oldest>{{cite book | title = Private Laws of the Territory of Kansas, 1858 | year = 1858 | pages = 71–91 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kig4AAAAIAAJ&dq=blue+mont+central+college+1858&pg=PA75 | author1 = Kansas }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last = Willard | first = Julius | title = Bluemont Central College, The Forerunner of Kansas State College | journal=Kansas Historical Quarterly | date = May 1945 | url = http://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1945/45_6_willard.htm | access-date = 2009-06-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Kansas' Oldest College Looks to Future | publisher=The Topeka Capitol-Journal | date = May 21, 2006 | url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20060521/ai_n16453106/ | access-date = 2009-06-02 | first=A. Ryan | last=Jacobson}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.kansasregents