Lawrence school board members communicated support for families at Prairie Park Elementary, and a parent called for greater transparency and additional support after several students were allegedly sexually assaulted.
On Monday, Lawrence school board members told the community that they will help support the families in the school district and at Prairie Park Elementary School after eight children, between the ...
The Lawrence school board on Monday approved Superintendent Jeanice Swift’s employment contract with an annual salary of $235,000.
Swift was the interim superintendent prior to being offered the permanent role, and her contract will run from July 1 of this year through June 30, 2028. Her interim contract will be in place until July.
According to the contract, Swift will be paid an annual salary of $235,000, ...
Lawrence school board members will hear another update on Monday about how nearly two weeks' worth of winter weather cancellations have affected the district's class time for the 2024-2025 school year.
The school district has so far used nine inclement weather days — five in January and four in February — after three big winter storms hit Lawrence. Since the first storm in early January, the school ...
The federal bureaucracy that surrounds Haskell Indian Nations University doesn't often give straight answers. But this week, Dan Wildcat said, it gave hundreds of community members a clear sign that they'd been heard.
Fourteen clear signs, in fact.
“This is, to me, the best part of the story so far,” Wildcat, an instructor of Indigenous and American Indian Studies at Haskell, told a crowd of about 100 ...
A large solar energy project proposed for Douglas County likely will require an increase in electric rates, as will a pair of natural gas power plants for other areas of Kansas.
During a public hearing on Wednesday via Zoom, Evergy — the state's largest electric utility — proposed rate increases for customers in Lawrence and elsewhere to help pay for two natural gas plants and the Kansas Sky Energy Center ...
Douglas County leaders are urging Kansans in Congress to stand up for residents affected by the Trump administration's executive orders — including the dozens who were laid off at Haskell Indian Nations University and the many others whose livelihoods rely on federal grants and contracts.
At its meeting on Wednesday, the County Commission discussed a letter that it plans to send next week to Republican U.S. ...
