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Want to propel the city of Lawrence on a downward spiral?
Close schools, increase class sizes, decrease teacher and staff salaries and benefits, and harm teacher and student morale. Make Lawrence a very unattractive place for growth!
De Soto, Eudora, Mill Valley and other localities will welcome a larger tax base as we race to the bottom.
— Tim Kelly, Lawrence
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Letter to the Times: Legislators are exploring child care deregulation; here’s what the community should know
”Not only does SB 282 ignore the real factors contributing to the child care crisis in Kansas, but it also ignores the valuable investments state agencies and communities have made to overcome the root problems with our child care system,” Chavis Lickvar-Armstrong writes in this letter to the Times.
