Story updated at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, 2023:
The budget recommendation from Lawrence school district Superintendent Anthony Lewis calls for potentially closing or repurposing four schools: closing Broken Arrow, Pinckney and Woodlawn elementaries and repurposing Liberty Memorial Central Middle School.
The Lawrence school board will receive the recommendation at its meeting on Monday. As part of the ...
Updated at 3:10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023
The City of Lawrence is looking to purchase a property to serve as a site for modular homes and a longer-term campsite for people experiencing homelessness. However, the site is not expected to open for a couple of months, and the city plans to extend the use of a campsite in North Lawrence as a result.
In December, the City Commission approved spending $4.5 ...
Superintendent Anthony Lewis told the Lawrence school board he would not be recommending any administrative cuts or a change to a four-day school week as part of next year’s budget cut package. However, because potentially closing multiple schools is still an option, some school board members asked that equity information be provided before they are asked to make decisions.
As part of a special meeting on ...
Lawrence school district leaders will soon begin discussing budget reductions that could include multiple school closures and dozens of teacher cuts, as well as the results of an equity review that recommends against several of the options.
As part of a special meeting on Tuesday, the Lawrence school board will receive a budget scenario created by a committee through a consultant-led process. The budget ...
After seeing minimal expansions of its boundaries in recent years, the City of Lawrence could be poised to increase by as much as 300 acres in the next year. However, as those requests come up, so will questions about where and how the city grows.
The city received four applications to annex land in 2022, totaling 295.05 acres altogether. Three of those applications were filed in the last half of the year. For ...
Story updated at 5:46 p.m. Feb. 17:
Commissioner Amber Sellers has filed for reelection to the Lawrence City Commission.
Sellers, who works in state policy with the Bureau of Family Health with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, was elected to her first term on the commission in November 2021. She said in her first year on the commission she developed a better understanding of the high-level ...
