Faculty and staff leaders were expected on Wednesday to release the totals of an informal vote on whether KU community members have confidence in Chancellor Doug Girod amid rising labor tensions. No such vote results emerged on Wednesday. Instead, Faculty Senate President Misty Heggeness — ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate voted Tuesday to clamp down on public school protests by requiring students to secure parental permission to participate and by imposing penalties on districts complicit in organizing protests or meek in disciplining student offenders. Sen. Michael Murphy, a ...
LAWRENCE — Attorneys will argue Friday in court over whether a judge should delay enforcement of a state law that invalidates driver’s licenses and birth certificates for those who changed their gender marker and restricts bathroom use based on sex assigned at birth. Two trans men from ...
UPDATED 9:35 P.M. March 2 In the wake of stalled labor negotiations, faculty and staff leaders at the University of Kansas are asking employees to consider a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Douglas Girod and the university’s chief financial officer. In a joint email this week, the KU ...
LAWRENCE — Two transgender men from Lawrence are suing the state over a new law that invalidates driver’s licenses and restricts bathroom use based on sex assigned at birth, citing numerous constitutional rights and fear of violence. The American Civil Liberties Union and ...
TOPEKA — Transgender rights activist Jaelynn Abegg was furious Thursday morning when she received a letter from the state informing her that her driver’s license had been invalidated because of a new state law. Abegg, a Wichita resident, said she would only get a new driver’s license if ...