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Dave Ranney
Dave Ranney, a senior Kansas government reporter, regularly covers state social services issues and a variety of general assignments.
Recent stories
- School board OKs tax increase
- Lawrence district approves additional $4.9M in levies
- August 29, 2006
- Supposedly, Mark Twain observed that while just about everybody talks about the weather, nobody does anything about it.
- Firm’s Medicaid advice may backfire for state
- August 28, 2006
- Ten years ago, state welfare officials fell head-over-heels in love with Maximus, a Virginia-based consulting firm that knew how to coax millions of federal dollars out of the nation’s Medicaid program.
- Menninger blasts mental health policy
- Psychiatrist sees many failings by state
- August 25, 2006
- When Dr. Roy Menninger addressed a Thursday meeting of the League of Women Voters of Douglas County, he looked for something nice to say about the state approach to caring for the mentally ill.
- Student’s art receives D.C. honor
- August 24, 2006
- Soon, a lot of congressmen will have their eyes on Alex Kim, an 18-year-old junior at Lawrence High School.
- District agrees to 8 percent pay raise
- Lawrence teachers, school board still must approve package
- August 24, 2006
- Lawrence school officials agreed Wednesday to give the district’s 850 teachers an 8 percent pay raise.
- City’s ACT scores beat national average
- August 17, 2006
- In Lawrence as in Lake Wobegon, the children are above average. Their ACT scores say so.
- Panel: More children need health coverage
- August 16, 2006
- A panel charged with overhauling the state’s approach to better health agreed Tuesday to urge Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to insure more children in low-income families, make routine dental care available to the poor and fight childhood obesity.
- Property tax increase moves forward
- August 15, 2006
- No one showed up Monday to protest the Lawrence school board’s plan to add as much as 6.437 mills to the district’s property tax levy.
- Hitting the (check) books
- Sending kids to school more costly than ever; fees, transportation, programs drive up expenses
- August 13, 2006
- Sue Roberts did the math. “On that first day of school, it’s going to cost us $338 for my son to walk in the door,” she said. “That seems like a lot to me.”
- Busing fee helps offset Lawrence district’s costs
- August 13, 2006
- In Kansas, school districts are expected to haul — or offer to haul — students who live more than 2.5 miles from their schools. The state picks up about half the cost.
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