After making hundreds of thousands of dollars in cuts, the Lawrence school board approved a 2020 fiscal year budget and ratified its agreement with the local teachers union.
Kathy Johnson, executive director of finance for the district, proposed making $368,000 in cuts during the board’s Monday meeting to allow for it to finalize its budget that expects to spend about $105.4 million.
The board unanimously ...
A summer camp held in Lawrence this week asked high school students interested in science, technology, engineering and math to consider another important aspect of creating products for others: empathy.
Design the Future, a weeklong STEM camp held on the University of Kansas campus, allowed area students to not only design and build products for people with disabilities but work firsthand with three people who ...
Before the Lawrence school board considers giving final approval to its 2020 budget this week, it will need to make half a million dollars in cuts to cover its new teacher contract, officials told the Journal-World.
Last week, the Lawrence Education Association and the school district’s administrators announced a tentative agreement to increase teacher compensation by a total of $1.9 million. The agreement ...
The Kansas Board of Regents is considering asking the state government to increase higher education funding by $50 million for the 2020-2021 school year.
The Regents met Thursday for their annual budget retreat at Kansas State University's polytechnic campus in Salina, where they began deliberating how much funding they will ask lawmakers to allocate to state universities for the 2021 fiscal year.
In documents ...
It’s not an announcement many would expect to see in 2019, but the Lawrence Public Library hopes the addition of a pay phone will help those who may need it.
On Monday, the library announced that it had installed a brand new pay phone within its walls to allow people to make calls whenever they need to. While the announcement received several "LOLs" and jokes on the library’s Facebook page, library director ...
A statewide organization has recognized Free State High School for performing "exceptionally well" in theater, music and other arts activities over the past school year.
Representatives of the Kansas State High School Activities Association on Thursday surprised Free State's fine arts department with the 2019-2020 KSHSAA Performing Arts School of Excellence award. The honor is given each year to a school that ...
