Topic: Meet and Confer
Interview of Jack Wempe, January 23, 2025
Interviewed by Mark Tallman
This 2025 oral history interview of Jack Wempe focuses on his experiences as a student in a one-room school and a teacher, principal and superintendent in rural Kansas; his legislative activities involving education issues; and his service on the Kansas Board of Regents. Wempe's experience covers the scope of education in Kansas over several decades of critical change. In this interview he describes school unification, changes in funding for public schools, implementation of qualified admissions, and reorganization of higher education with the Board of Regents assuming coordination responsibilities for the nineteen community colleges.
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