With enrollment and state aid decreasing, the Lawrence school board approved a maximum property tax rate with a slight increase from last year, aiming to offset the funding gap.
On Monday, school board members approved the maximum mill levy – or property tax rate – of 52.333 mills. Once the school board sets its maximum mill levy, it is still able to lower the rate, but it can no longer increase it. One ...
On its website, Lawrence's Ballard Center says its mission is to help local families in need "achieve stability." But in April, the nonprofit got a painful lesson about instability when the Trump administration cut the grants for its AmeriCorps volunteers.
The Ballard Center, as the Journal-World reported, was one of four entities in Douglas County to be affected by the Department of Government Efficiency's ...
Lawrence school board members are set to begin discussions next week on the 2025-2026 school year budget, and they'll consider setting a maximum property tax rate slightly higher than the previous year's rate.
While little information on the budget was included in the school board’s meeting agenda for Monday, the district has notified the Douglas County Clerk that the mill levy – also known as the property ...
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran is still working to gain support for legislation that would let Haskell Indian Nations University govern itself, and he says he's encouraged by the tribes and other organizations that have endorsed it so far.
Moran is one of several Kansas Republicans in Congress who helped introduce the Haskell Indian Nations University Improvement Act at the end of June. The bill would transfer the ...
The Lawrence Community Shelter’s new prefabricated Pallet cabins will be assembled starting next week and will open next month, the shelter's leader says, and that means that camping will soon not be allowed in public spaces in the city of Lawrence.
Pallet 24, which consists of 24 prefabricated, 64-square-foot cabins behind LCS’ main building at 3655 E. 25th St., is expected to open on Friday, Sept. 12, for ...
As Haskell Indian Nations University braces for significant cuts in tribal college funding, a nonprofit that supports the university is seeking $300,000 in donations to help the university get through the next school year.
The Haskell Foundation provides financial assistance and other resources that supplement what the Bureau of Indian Education provides to the university. So far this year, it has raised more ...
