Though a report indicates the Lawrence school district has significantly more central office administrators than other large districts in the state, school board members were told that information needed to be considered in context with other data.
As part of its meeting Monday, the board received a report about the district’s administrative staff levels from the Kansas Association of School Boards. In a ...
One of the proposals that will be discussed as the Lawrence school board seeks to cut millions of dollars from its budget is the creation of multi-grade elementary classrooms that would allow the district to employ significantly fewer teachers.
The multi-grade classrooms would give the school district the option to combine smaller classes of adjacent grade levels, allowing the district to eliminate 24 teaching ...
City leaders will soon consider hiring an architecture firm to help develop a long-term version of a program that has allowed downtown businesses to construct patios and outdoor dining areas in parking stalls during the coronavirus pandemic.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider authorizing city staff to proceed with development of a long-term “parklet” program with the ...
The Watkins Museum of History will open an exhibit Friday about the lynching of three Black men that occurred near downtown Lawrence in 1882.
To create the exhibit, Watkins partnered with the Lawrence/Douglas County Community Remembrance Project Coalition, which has been leading an ongoing project to commemorate the lynching and add a marker near the lynching site. An announcement about the exhibit, ...
Local social service agency employees and volunteers are working to conduct the annual “point-in-time” survey, a process that seeks to count every person experiencing homelessness in Douglas County.
The annual survey is a count of both sheltered and unsheltered people who were experiencing homelessness on a single night, with this year’s date being Feb. 22. Douglas County Homeless Services Coordinator ...
The labor union representing the Lawrence school district’s paraeducators and other classified staff is asking the district to increase pay to a minimum of $15 per hour.
The school district began contract negotiations on Monday with the Personnel Association of Lawrence-Communication Workers of America, Local 6400, which represents the district’s paraeducators, custodians, food service workers, office staff ...
