TOPEKA — A Kansas House committee recommended a budget for the state’s six public universities that freezes tuition rates, reduces need-based student aid, requires development of plans to lower central administration expenditures by 10% and offers faculty one year instead of two to fix ...
The recently signed federal legislation that headed off of a federal government shutdown included $20 million in new funding for the University of Kansas Hospital system. U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, announced that the legislation signed by President Trump on Tuesday included $10 million ...
Kansas Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach wants lawmakers to force state agencies to hand over personal information about recipients of food assistance to the Trump administration. A Kansas Senate committee is considering a bill that would mandate that the Kansas Department for Children ...
A bill that would prohibit most students from being required to take diversity, equity and inclusion-related classes in order to get a degree at a Kansas university began to make its way through the Statehouse Tuesday. It also got some dollar signs attached to it as it begins its journey. ...
TOPEKA — Kansas ordained clergy would be mandated reporters of child abuse under a bill proposed Monday in the House Judiciary Committee, and proponents hope this will be the year it passes. House Bill 2352 adds fully ordained ministers to the list of professions required to be mandatory ...
TOPEKA — U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids says she’s embarking on a four-city sweep — all locations outside her congressional district — to learn more about Kansans’ priorities for the federal government. In an interview, the Kansas Democrat said she planned to be in the Statehouse on ...