A recommendation presented to the board Nov. 11 called for New Stanley to be consolidated into a bigger, brand new elementary school along with Silver City and Noble Prentis. Depending on where the district’s dual language program is moved, some students could end up at Emerson Elementary as well.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the food stamp program, told states like Kansas that paid out full benefits that doing so was “unauthorized” and that they needed to recover the payments made out to residents.