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School closings on the line in Lawrence
With a $4 million budget deficit growing to $5 million, the likelihood of school closings seems to be increasing.
In depth
- Audit looks at school district consolidation
- 01:04 p.m., February 8, 2010 Updated 01:05 p.m.
- The state could save money by merging school districts, but those consolidations could also produce problems, the study said.
- Lawrence elementary school lunches
- February 8, 2010
- School-closing talk turns to junior highs
- February 8, 2010
- Nancy Hamilton says Lawrence school leaders are looking at closing the wrong type of school amid a $4 million to $5 million budget deficit because of the state budget crisis and higher insurance costs.
- Cuts cause pain across the state
- February 8, 2010
- As Lawrence school board members are determining how to cut an estimated $4 million to $5 million before next school year because of the state’s fiscal crisis, the pain is universal across the state.
- Hundreds rally to keep schools open
- February 7, 2010
- The chant “Save Our Schools” rang through downtown Lawrence on Saturday afternoon as a crowd of protesters spanning two city blocks marched along Massachusetts Street.
- Free state High School honor roll
- February 7, 2010
- Free State High School has announced its first semester 2009-10 honor rolls.
- Southwest Junior High School honor roll
- February 6, 2010
- Southwest Junior High School has announced its fall 2009 honor rolls, as provided by the school.
- Funding debate pits courts against schools
- February 6, 2010
- An effort to keep furloughs from shutting down Kansas courts for several extra weeks in the spring got tangled up Friday in some legislators’ frustration with school districts seeking to reopen an education funding lawsuit.
- Seabury student bee champ 3rd year in a row
- February 6, 2010
- With the word “squalor,” Isaac Ward had a clean win for his third and final title as Douglas County Spelling Bee champion.
- Dance clinic to aid LHS pom squad
- February 5, 2010
- A Little Lion dance clinic will be from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday in the east gym at Lawrence High School, 19th and Louisiana streets.
- Without cutting teachers, closing schools, school district only half-way to closing budget deficit
- Cuts to fine arts, sports, administration, other areas only add up to $2.5 million
- February 3, 2010
- The painful list of Lawrence school budget cut options — from dropping support staff to after-school music programs and athletic coaches — will only get board members halfway to covering a $5 million deficit.
- Statehouse Live: Senate Judiciary Committee recommends approval of resolutions dealing with school lawsuit, 10th amendment
- 11:18 a.m., February 3, 2010 Updated 11:51 a.m.
- Non-binding measures now go to full Senate
- School district’s landscaping bids come in almost 50 percent under budget
- February 3, 2010
- The Lawrence school district doesn’t have to pick and choose pieces of landscaping for the outdoor athletic high school facilities. The board-approved bid is about half of what the board budgeted.
- District weighs budget options
- Deficit likely to stretch to $5M
- February 3, 2010
- It was two and a half hours of talk about options for budget cuts in Lawrence schools, including fewer secondary school courses, more students in elementary classes, fewer positions, and even closing some elementary schools.
- Lawrence parents plan Save our Schools rally for this weekend
- February 2, 2010
- Members of Save Our Neighborhood Schools are organizing for Saturday a rally and march down Massachusetts Street.
- South Junior High Honor Roll
- February 2, 2010
- South Junior High School has announced its first semester honor roll.
- Tuesday’s school board budget study session will be aired live on Sunflower Broadband
- February 1, 2010
- The Lawrence school board’s budget study session at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday will be televised on Sunflower Broadband channel 26.
- Lawrence elementary school lunches
- February 1, 2010
- Fair play: Competition de-emphasized at annual science event
- February 1, 2010
- Dave Nordlund has overseen the Douglas County Science Fair for three decades. To wit, he has some insider information that may come as a shock.
- School board to discuss budget
- February 1, 2010
- The Lawrence school board will have another budgetary study session at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the board room at district headquarters, 110 McDonald Drive.
- Eudora schools slash funding for field trips
- District faces $355,500 shortfall
- January 31, 2010
- Eighth-graders taking earth science classes are among the few Eudora students who still can take their studies outside the classroom.
- West Junior High School Honor Roll
- January 31, 2010
- West Junior High School has announced its fall semester honor rolls.
- Sending out an S.O.S.
- Save Our Schools exhibit set up to help prevent New York, Cordley from closure
- January 30, 2010
- The Percolator event highlighting East Lawrence grade-school art is far from child’s play…
- Central Junior High Honor Roll
- January 27, 2010
- Central Junior High School has announced its fall semester honor rolls.
- Middle school timing uncertain
- January 26, 2010
- Lawrence school board members are sure they want to continue moving toward a middle school reconfiguration and a four-year high school, but the timeline on when to make the move is something they couldn’t agree on.
- Senator seeks resolution to prohibit school districts from using tax dollars to sue for more tax dollars
- January 25, 2010
- A south-central Kansas senator is asking his counterparts to approve a resolution that in part states that Kansans can’t use tax dollars to sue for more tax dollars.
- School essay winners offer tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
- January 25, 2010
- Central Junior High School recently announced winners of its essay contest to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. This year the topic was “Bridging the Dream.”
- In transition: Teens weigh in on pros, cons of moving ninth-graders to high school
- January 25, 2010
- • Lawrence’s system works, so don’t change a thing • Mature environment would benefit freshmen
- Spell check: Lawrence schools are staging qualifying events to determine which students move on to the Douglas County Spelling Bee on Feb. 6
- January 25, 2010
- Don’t let the candy-colored murals and construction paper-plastered bulletin boards fool you — beneath the juvenile trappings of Kennedy School roils the same spirit which transforms mortals into Olympians and grade-school students into spelling deities.
- Lawrence elementary school lunches
- January 25, 2010
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