The Lawrence school district celebrated its adult education graduates, who either completed their high school diploma or got their GED, during a ceremony on Thursday at the Lawrence College and Career Center. photo by:Shawn Valverde Graduate Jasmine Clock speaks at the 2024 adult education...
The Lawrence school district is hosting forums this week to gather public input on proposed changes to boundaries for its four middle schools. The boundary changes would enable the district to reassign sixth- through eighth-grade students who don’t want to take part in Liberty Memo...
such as state-level efforts to use state tax dollars to help families pay for private school or homeschooling. Miner, who is a member of a grassroots campaign advocating for fully funded public education in Kansas, said she would continue to speak...
The district’s enrollment report is completed on Sept. 20 of each year, and this year’s report shows that district enrollment has dropped by 299 students. The total enrollment for 2022 after an audit from the Kans...
— Columbia, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania — along with Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. It also includes one K-12 system, the Maize...
The Kansas Legislature is expected, among other things, to decide whether what’s known as the “two-year lookback” will be eliminated. The lookback allows school districts to “look back” two years for their enrollment count — upon which state funding is based. Retention...
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Gordon-Ross said that data from the Kansas State Department of Education for the 2022-2023 school year showed that the Lawrence school district had one administrator for every 205 students, while the Olathe school district had 1 for every 203. ...
The Lawrence school board and the district’s classified staff union have reached a tentative agreement for the 2024-2025 school year, which includes a 99-cent hourly wage increase. The school district and PAL-CWA have tentatively agreed to ...
A proposed student fee package at KU that would have included an 80% decrease in funding to the University Daily Kansan, the KU student newspaper, was voted down on Wednesday night. The University of Kansas Student Senate Finance Council voted 17-6, with one abstaining, against the proposed ...