Kansas education officials think journalism is a dead-end job

Of the mind that reporters are going the way of blacksmiths, the Kansas Department of Education plans to stop funding journalism courses with vocational-ed dollars.

State officials want the Career and Technical Education fund to emphasize “high-demand, high-skill and high-wage fields,” according to a report in The Topeka Capital-Journal. The journalism profession does not fit this criteria, a fact made sadly evident by the most recent round of pack-up-your-AP-sytlebooks at The Kansas City Star.