Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew expects to be working Saturday recounting about 8,600 county ballots cast in the Aug. 7 Republican primary for governor.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach held a 110-vote lead over Gov. Jeff Colyer after the state’s 105 counties finished counting late arriving advance ballots on Friday. The two men are vying for the Republican gubernatorial nomination for the November ...
The Lawrence school board on Monday received a technology update that included statistics on the number of iPads, MacBooks and associated accessories students lost during the 2017-2018 school year.
Of the 2,500 iPads issued last year to middle school students, 26 were lost and another 42 weren’t checked back at the end-of-school due date, said Ellen Willets, district director of technology and learning, in ...
This spring, the Lawrence school board had the rare task of deciding how to spend more than $4.8 million in new money coming the district’s way for the next school year.
That was not a task the school board has had in recent years when there was little or no bump in state funding, nor are any school boards in the immediate future likely to have near that much new money to allocate toward district needs. With ...
The district technology director will present the Lawrence school board a report Monday that suggests options that would require middle and high school students to help with the cost of replacing computing devices and accessories they lose.
The district has provided iPads to middle school students the last two years, and it started providing all high school students MacBooks last year. A report that Ellen ...
Fewer than 10 people showed up for a "Defend the Flag" rally planned for Saturday afternoon in downtown Lawrence, but hundreds of counterprotesters flocked to Massachusetts Street in opposition to the event.
Organizer Clay Mead said the Defend the Flag rally was a response to a controversial art piece featuring an altered American flag that was displayed at the University of Kansas. The event's Facebook page ...
The Baldwin City school board will consider approving later this month a 2018-2019 budget that will reduce the district property tax rate by 4 mills.
Last week, the board approved publication of the proposed $24.1 million budget. If approved after an Aug. 20 public hearing on the budget, the district’s 2018-2019 mill levy will be 59.671 mills. At that rate, the district’s share of taxes on a $175,000 home ...
