Carefully walking between rows of sprouting plants, Donavan Lawrence gives a tour of the St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church community garden. The caretaker points out the spiral-shaped herb garden and elevated plots for people with mobility issues. He stops by a group of raised mounds where the ...
TOPEKA — Four Johnson County public school districts want to sue the state of Kansas for more than 15 years of inadequate special education funding. The districts formed the Kansas Public School Funding Coalition and are seeking legal counsel, they announced in a Wednesday press release. The ...
In what has become an annual exercise to keep $2 million of state funding, the University of Kansas and the state’s other public universities are being ordered to address diversity, equity and inclusion topics. This year, the Kansas Legislature’s orders are limited: Create some ...
MONTEZUMA — Orville Williams has had a healthy wheat crop on his 2,600-acre farm in Montezuma, Kansas, every year since he was a teenager. It hasn't always been easy. For instance, there were challenging economic times through the 1980s and various degrees of drought affecting his yield ...
University of Kansas leaders are proposing a 5% increase in tuition and fees for the average student next school year, as administrators said the additional money is needed primarily to boost salaries on campus. KU and the state’s other public universities presented their recommendations to ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Corrections signed a two-year contract with a private healthcare company based in Topeka to provide medical services for 10,000 inmates at the state’s eight adult prisons and the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex. The deal with VitalCore Health ...